Abstract:

Family is the fundamental component of a society, the perspective upon family virtually affects the social culture in every aspect of life. So, family values are not isolated from national culture; it has a close relationship with other social relations. Chinese and American cultures have great differences in family values and other family relations. Learning the differences and its indications in social relations between China and America is of great importance to the theoretical research and the Sino- American intercultural communication. This thesis makes a comparison of the differences between American and Chinese family values based on intercultural communication theory, and discusses the effects that family values bring to friendship, working relationship, social contact and life values. Finally, this thesis analyses the factors leading to the differences in family values and points out that the change of family values will also lead to the change of social relations and cultural perspectives.

Key words: family values; social relationships; effect

摘 要：

家庭是社会的组成单位，家庭观影响着社会文化的方方面面。因此，家庭观在社会文化中并不是孤立的，它与其他社会关系有着千丝万缕的联系。中美两种不同文化在家庭观和家庭关系方面都表现出很多本质的差异，了解中美家庭观的差异以及其在社会关系中的表现，具有很大的理论研究意义，对更有效的进行中美跨文化交际具有很重要的作用。本文通过运用跨文化交际的相关理论阐述了中美两国的家庭观的主要异同点，并对家庭观对朋友关系，工作关系以及社交观、价值观等产生的影响进行了讨论。在此基础之上，分析了造成中美家庭观差异的原因,指出家庭观的变化也会导致社会关系和文化观念的变迁。

关键词： 家庭观；社会关系；影响