ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on only one of the objects of the physical world, the home. The relationships between the person and the home are described by special cognitive, emotional, and behavioral ties, which make it possible for the home to be the regulatory means of the openness/closedness of the person. For a person, the home is probably the most important object of the physical world. By expressing the identity of the family as a whole and regulating its openness/closedness, the home does not lose its function as a privacy-regulating mechanism for different individuals living in the home. Family, as a social group can use different environmental objects as privacy regulation mechanisms. In contrast, the American home consists of different private rooms for individual family members and in addition to that, there are separate rooms used for receiving guests and for family gatherings.