| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 傳播學院傳播碩士學位學程 === 106 === Aging is inevitable in life; nonetheless, older persons’ memory accumulated through more than 60 year experiences is a treasure, abundantly containing “ordinary wisdom” regarding “how to live better.” On the other hand, families, as primary social groups, are inseparable from individual life.
This Thesis, by using the theory of eight stages of life and the “viewpoint of life history” of the family life course development theory, examined both the elders’ “family” memoirs occurred during their extended life expectancy as well as their self-identity reflected based on such stories.
Two elders were accordingly invited by this Researcher to portray “family life pictures” and interviewed in order to acquire texts of their life story with family as the theme. Further, based on narrative theory, this Researchers plowed through the essence of the texts, topics, narrative elements and structures, as well as the reflected self-identity and the identity transition.
The result indicated that, in spite of their distinctive backgrounds, the family life pictures herein both exhibited some indispensable requirements of building family such as “money”, “houses”, “family members”, and “other work-related signs.” Each story illustrated a distinguished theme representing its respective life stages: during the elders’ arduous childhood with their mothers being the significant others, they had to strike a balance between reliance and independence; while in their adulthood, they inevitably encountered dilemmas between “marriage and job” or between “liberty and duty.” Irrespective of ups and downs, the elders both presented life wisdom upholding their completeness of life. Further, the elders’ self-identity revealed through the texts of their family memoirs often changed as time passed by, which corresponded to Giddens’ proposed concepts of “high modernity” where people’s self-awareness began to grow and the pattern of their close relationship gradually transformed.
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