摘要：

对于学校教育和社会教育来说，家庭教育更加广泛和根本，家庭教育关乎个人的成长，家庭的和睦幸福及整个社会的和谐发展。由于历史、政治、经济、社会、文化等因素的影响，中西家庭教育表现出不同的特点，其中文化因素对家庭教育产生的影响尤为深远。本文尝试从文化的视角对中西家庭教育价值、内容、方式等方面进行比较研究。分析各自不同的特点，一方面发扬中国传统的家庭教育，另一方面汲取西方先进的家庭教育理念，为社会主义现代化建设培养更多优秀人才。
    本论文包括四部分。第一部分是引言，概述了重要概念的界定和论文的引出。第二部分是从文化角度比较中西家庭教育在目的、内容和方法三方面的差异。第三部分是提出应对的策略。第四部分是总结本研究的未来展望和研究不足。

关键词：文化；角色理论；中西家庭教育；比较研究

Abstract:

 Comparing with school education and social education, the family education is more broad and fundamental. The family education has significant effect on personal growth, harmonious happiness of family and the harmonious development of society as a whole. Due to the influence of historical, political, economic, social and cultural factors, the family education of Chinese and western countries shows different characteristics. Among them the impact of cultural factors on the family education is especially far-reaching. This paper tries to research the educational value, content and method of family education in China and western countries from the angle of culture carrying the comparative study. Analysis of their different characteristics, on one hand, carries forward the traditional Chinese family education, on the other hand, draws on the advanced western concepts of family education training more talents for socialist modernization construction.
    This paper has four parts. The first is introduction, which is the about the main conception and the cause of the thesis. The second is the comparative study of the family education of China and western countries on the educational aim, content and method. The third is the suggestion to deal with the cultural difference. The fourth is the conclusion, which is about the outlook and the shortcomings of the paper..

Key words: family culture; role theory; Chinese and western family education; comparative study