“A família como célula mater, uma visão a partir da doutrina social da Igreja”

Abstract

The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and the philosopher Erich Fromm, each one in his own time, reflect on the accelerated changes of modernity and its social structures. These changes doesn´t concern only about consumerism, but also cover society, families and the subjectivity of every individual. Individual in society nowadays searches for subterfuges in order to fulfil the lack that the changes of values and principles had brought. A solid family is able to give the individual what it needs, that is, love. Fromm in his time already thought up these questions and worried about the ephemeral relationships in society, especially in the context of the two World Wars that had pointed into the degeneration of the relations and love inside the capitalist society. For sure Bauman isn´t indifferent as to these changes and he portraits this scenario of the liquid modernity. The Church Social Doctrine (CSD) as an answer of the Catholic Church aims to provide the foundations for the Cristian families that have the wish to evangelize as its societal role. The objective of this work is to explore how the Cristian families, based on the Gospel and on CSD can develop their social role in society that shows itself in constant changes and unable to consolidate its values. The main question to be answered is how the family based upon the CSD can freely exercise its role in society, politics and economy in the face of social challenges that demand time to be administered and solved. Bauman verify that in the liquid modernity the involvement is one of the main problems for families. In this “liquid” world, things aren´t made to last, somewhat like the relations between individuals that stopped being personal to become virtual, that is, aimed only for entertainment