Appendix B: Comparison of Family Rituals and Family Routines
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Meanings
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Have special meaning and
symbolic significance
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Often have special meaning or
symbolic significance
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Associations
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Closely tied to extraordinary
events
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Closely tied to ordinary family
life
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Usually tied to culture,
religion or faith, ethnicity, and social customs
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Meaningful behaviors tied to
family identity, member needs, and valued family events
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Initiation
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Often intergenerational;
becomes more tightly enacted as the family is more committed over
time and interests in retaining and transferring meaning to the
future increase
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Initiated when members identify
themselves as family and desire a collective identity; tend to
become more patterned and organized over time
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Traits
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Repetitive and highly
structured actions related to celebrations, traditions, and
cultural customs that include the entire family and have
accompanying role expectations
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Repetitive, with both highly
and somewhat structured actions related to daily life and family
function that may include the entire family, dyads, or triads and
have accompanying role expectations
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Continue relatively unchanged
across the life course
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Changes based on members’ and
family household needs
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Systematically planned
according to revered practices and customs
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Response to valued behaviors,
stress, change, transitions, development, and predictable life
events
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Mostly based on esteemed family
traditions
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May be intentional, deliberate,
and directed by shared values of multiple family members, but may
also be unplanned
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Intergenerationally transmitted
with few changes
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Some may be transmitted across
generations, but patterns may change
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Licenses and Attributions for Appendix B: Comparison of Family Rituals and Family Routines
“Appendix B: Comparison of Family Rituals and Family Routines” by Monica Olvera is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
