Familial Relativism

I usually do not write about things that I am experiencing (my diary is used for that). However, for the moment I am currently seated in a strange place amid strange people. These people are the many realitives of a girl that I am dating. I noticed that her family is distinct from mine; this observation is obviously not anything except intuitive. Nevertheless, this apparently ‘obvious’ observation demands greater investigation, and even if my girl/ lady friend would not approve of me using her family as a test-subject, I will procceed anyway. I would like to remind you that I am typing this as I sit here – VERY quietly- in a state of observation. I have noticed that every family hold some value that is specific and “relative” to that family. For example, my test-subject holds that a level of open responsivity be actualized in moments of contact or presentatio. This is facinating becuase other families that I am VERY familiar with do not require as a collection such exposure; in seems that such interactions in the test-subject family are developed as a type of convention. However, how are such conventions developed so as to allow such and such a family holds as valuble become relativistic values? I think that David Lewis’ theory of convention comes into play here; I suppose that when a family brings about a sloution to a coordination problem, that solution is then established as a tradition and is then valued as a norm. I think that these norms become such that they are passed down and carried out as necessary to be considered part of the social group of – the family. Nevertheless, I shall add to this post latter.