This study examines how families in Turkey navigate, reproduce, and contest deeply rooted social norms by approaching the family as a dynamic field in the Bourdieuian sense. While many individuals regard the family as a central, morally significant, and protective institution—often reinforced through religious, historical, and national narratives—fieldwork reveals substantial tensions between these orthodox assumptions and lived realities. These tensions are especially evident among young women, whose heterodox perspectives emerge through everyday negotiations, subtle resistances, and shifting attitudes toward gender roles, religion, and politics. By distinguishing between imagined, idealized, and lived family, the study offers an analytical framework that exposes gaps between normative expectations and daily practices, demonstrating how familial norms are simultaneously reproduced and transformed. Additionally, the analysis of strategies such as concealing political views, strategic lying, and avoiding conflict provides insight into broader patterns of relating to authority in Turkey. Overall, the thesis shows that the family is not a static or monolithic institution but a contested and evolving social field shaped by intergenerational tensions and ongoing processes of negotiation.