Family Stories: Messages and Meanings
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Family Communications
- Grade Level: Adult
- Subjects: Relationships / Family / Parenting, Sociology
- Produced By: Governors State University
- Year: 1997
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 29m 32s
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Explains the four functions of family stories. Students learn how family stories provide moral lessons, help to connect generations, shape personal identity, and socialize new members into the family. Discussion topics also include the universal importance of family stories, the kinds of questions family stories tend to answer, and the genealogical function of family stories. Featured interview: Professor Rives Collins (Northwestern University).