The peculiarities of the families of the single-industry town

Half of the towns in Russia are considered to be single-industry towns, accordingly the most of families are town citizens that allows to characterizes such families as the typical for Russian society. The analysis of the family in the condition of territorial single-industry town area is necessary from the initial stage - the forming of the family. Exploring the family and its forming in single-industry town, the author is distinguishing the absolutely opposite features as compared with a big city. 1. The minimum marriage market with its gomogamny choice of marriage partner. The term «marriage partner» is connected with the identification of selection process of the marriage partner with the bargain. The more the city the maximum the marriage market. Single-industry towns are differ from others its secrecy and isolation. In this regard the gomogamny choice of marriage partner is prevailed, we can observe people with the single race, nation, religion, social level, education, age, the same marriage status and the place of residence. It is convenient to live with parents. 2. The most number of civil marriages. The spreading of civil marriages is typical to provincial towns not for big cities. It is exclaimed that civil marriage is luxury and economically is not gained. The most metropolitans choose the life with parents, because they have little chance to buy their own dwelling space, and it is too expensive to rent a flat. The girls don't want to burden themselves to keep housing and they think that it is a risky matter because they should not be valued and offered the official relations. 3. The family affection towards city-forming enterprise. Under conditions of single-industry town all the system of relations, including familiar is formed on the importance of city-forming enterprise in the life of concrete territorial formation. The city-forming enterprise had been for a long time the personification of all vital blessing for the working people and their families. The specific character of factory labor with its accurate regime is influenced on the living standards of the family. 4. The formation of single-industry town's identity. The territorial behavior of people promotes to form the territorial identity on different levels. The author supposes that in towns having the status of single-industry towns half of the common number, the single-industry town identity is displayed and offers to industry town identity meaning the specific mental level of people living in big cities. The conscious of such citizen was forming not to be as a city-dweller but in a quality of a worker of the labor group. 5. The ruralization of families. The most industrial cities are new without own history, tradition and the nearest villages which couldn't live there due to social reasons. Thus the country people continue to live in the cities following to their principles and traditions, passing their experience to their children that we can observe at the present moment.

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