Family honor

Family honor is the perceived worthiness and respectability of a family, an abstract quality that shapes how the group and its individual members are viewed both by themselves and by their community. In honor-based cultures, the family functions as the central institution organizing social identity, and the conduct of any one family member directly affects the reputation and self-perception of the whole group across dimensions including social standing, religious practice, educational achievement, career success, property ownership, and marital status. People in these cultures place high priority on meeting family and societal expectations in order to gain acceptance and belonging, and some traditions regard maintaining family honor as more important than individual freedom or personal accomplishment. A recurring theme across many such traditions is respect for elders, who are seen as having earned honor through life experience and who transmit cultural traditions and values to younger generations; the specific components valued as family honor vary by region, from an emphasis on female chastity in some Middle Eastern societies to an emphasis on academic achievement in some East Asian societies. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/