Transformat ion of the institution of family in today''s modernization process
The article reveals the main trends and stages of transformation of the social institution of marriage and family in Russia. The changes in the family institute on a background of the modernization process in the Russian society, are associated with the transition to the beginning of the information stage. There are considered the characteristic features of divorce in the context of the beginning of the modernization of information in Russia and its stages. The article describes the theory of marriage as the basis of selecting a motivational base for the creation of a stable family. It is emphasized that by the early twenty-first century, the family has gone through several stages of development: patriarchal or traditional, children-oriented or modern, marital or post-modern, as well as incomplete and illegitimate. Currently there is the process of transformation of modern ideas of men and women regarding the family institution, which is accompanied by a change of the spiritual principles and spiritual potential of the modern family. There are the following factors affecting the family and its stability: the Westernization of the system of values (the spread of Western values around the world); the transformation of the economic structure; freedom; individualism; gender asymmetry (i.e. disproportionate representation of social and cultural roles of both sexes in all spheres of life); the redistribution of social roles between women and men, etc. The article emphasizes that the weakening of the role of the family as a mediator in the interaction between the individual and society reinforces non-family value orientations of family members on personal achievements, leading to their advantage above the value of family lifestyle and value of children. There are given recommendations to strengthen the institution of family and marriage, and raising the prestige of the family and family life.