Abstract:

The development of family education and family traditions constitutes a fundamental cornerstone for the modernization of grassroots governance in the new era. As the basic unit of society, families contribute to grassroots governance through mechanisms such as value enculturation and moral internalization, behavioral discipline and order formation, social capital cultivation and network construction, as well as cultural inheritance and community building. These mechanisms provide the ethical foundation, normative basis, resource mobilization, and cultural identity essential for grassroots governance. However, current challenges include the weakening of family structures and functions, the narrowing of educational objectives within families, the blurring of boundaries between public and private spheres, and the absence of an adequate institutional support system. To address these issues, efforts should focus on implementing family development support programs to enhance functional capacity, establishing a "family-state integration" policy support framework to promote institutional embeddedness, reshaping the cultural environment of community governance to deepen cultural immersion, and fostering diverse in co-governance networks to activate collaborative synergy. These measures aim to deeply integrate family education and family traditions into grassroots governance, thereby solidifying the micro-foundation of national governance.

Key words: family education and family traditions, grassroots governance, family-state integration