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The concept familia faber focuses on families as makers of social reality, constructors of the future social order, as doers and shapers. The family is more often thought of as product or victim of change than as producer and instigator. Sociological tradition from Durkheim and Simmel to Peter Berger, which is oriented to the social construction of reality, has not been applied often enough to the study of the family. The United States is a nation of immigrants, and yet the immigrant experience of taking the raw materials of the new world and constructing a new reality for one’s newcomer family has received little attention.
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This text was published as “Familia Faber: The Family as Maker of the Future”, in: Journal of Marriage and the Family 45(2), 1983::257–266. Copyright © 1983 by the National Council on Family Relations. Reprint permission by Wiley granted on 27 July, 2015.An earlier version was presented as the keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, October 1981.
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The Children’s Creative Response to Conflict Program was started in the 1960s by the New York Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends and is now administered by the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York. Within the Catholic church there is the National Parenting for Peace and Justice Network. Both sets of programs produce conflict-resolution materials for children and families. [Editor’s note: The CCRC project was a program of FOR from 1978 to 1992, and incorporated as a separate organization called Creative Response to Conflict Project with a central office in Nyack, NY, and affiliate branches throughout the United States, in Europe, and in South and Central America (http://crc-global.org/). CRC materials have been translated into languages including: Arabic, French, German, Nepali, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Welsh. The Alternatives to Violence Project/USA is now headquartered in Minneapolis, MN (http://avpusa.org/), and the Basic Manual is also available in Spanish.].
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Boulding, J.R. (2016). Familia Faber: The Family as Maker of the Future (1983). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Writings on Feminism, the Family and Quakerism. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30978-1_7
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