This article is about family honour in English and its role and importance in spoken and written language. Protecting the family and family honour, passing it on to the next generation, and its role in literature and the concept of honour, which is explored theoretically, with references to the most prominent researchers in the field, as well as historically, in order to reveal the concept’s main transformations in English culture. In addition, the article gives a short introduction to the rest of the articles in the book.

This article is about family honour in different countries and people’s social identity, Masculine honor has been found to explain
the relationship between insults and aggression in the USA. However, detailed accounts of Mediterranean honor cultures suggest that family honor may be more important in explaining cross-cultural differences in aggression. Two studies revealed that people from Turkish honor culture intended to aggress more after being insulted than Dutch people from a nonhonor culture, and that this effect was driven by differences in family honor rather than differences in masculine honor. We posit that family honor may be a key factor in explaining insult-related aggression in Mediterranean honor cultures.