47/2. Tetiana Kuznets

Tetiana Kuznets

Doctor of Historical Sciences,Professor of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9282-110Х

DOI: 10.17721/2522-4611.2023.47.2


DEVIANTNESS IN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONTEXT OF

EVERYDAY HISTORY (ON THE MATERIALS OF KYIV PROVINCIAL

NEWSPAPERS OF THE LAST QUARTER OF 

THE 19 TH – EARLY 20 TH CENTURIES)


 The article deals with the systematization of information about the negative types of deviant behavior in the families of the Uman district being one of the largest among the twelve districts of the Kyiv province in terms of the area size and population density given in Kyiv newspapers: «Zarja», «Kievskoe slovo», «Kievljanin». 16 announcements about the cruel treatment of family members to each other, beatings, violence in families were published in the mentioned newspapers from 1883 to 1912.

The tonality of newspaper publications gave ground to conclude that such manifestations of deviant behavior were parts of everyday life and they were reported as common trivial occurrences. It breaks the stereotypes about the patriarchal nature of families, the religiosity of the population and the adherence to Christian commandments, enlarges the idea of public morality. Taking into consideration the fact that the family is the center of society, family relationships to a certain extent characterize social relations in general. On the basis of systematized information we made the conclusion that the published announcements about deviations in families in the newspaper columns were one of the manifestations of state intervention in personal life and interpersonal relationships. On the other hand, the dissemination of information by newspapers about violence, murders and drunkenness as the cause of illegal acts is aimed at forming public opinion regarding the condemnation of negative types of deviant behavior. In spite of the absence of evaluations concerning the outlined news in publications, the expediency of information dissemination about cruelty and violence may be elucidated by the necessity for drawing attention to such aspects of social existence. The material represented in the article supplements the idea of everyday life, family relationships, levels of well-being and material provision of the rural population. A microhistorical approach made it possible to provide details within the covered theme contributing to the accumulation of empirical material in local history and the history of everyday life.

Key words: Kyiv provincial press, «Zarja», «Kievskoe slovo», «Kievljanin»‚ Uman district, everyday life.


Received by the editorial board: 19.12.2022 

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