This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Hammel, E.A. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

The Yugoslav Family in the Modern World: Adaptation To Change

University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720)

The analysis of family systems has four essential aspects: organiza tional, terminological, expectational, and behavioral. The family systems of Yugoslavia show, over their history and territory, a range of variation in all these equivalent almost to all we know of the range of Indo-European systems. Yet the variations are no evidence for linear development nor are they the simple reflex of macro-level environmental change. They are best understood as surface adapta tions, selective responses out of a consistent body of cultural knowledge. Behav ioral accommodations to social and economic change seem readiest to change, then organizational shifts. Expectations of behavior change more slowly. The cognitive structure inferable from native terminology changes most slowly, and within it the affinal terminology, then group terminology, and, finally, con sanguineal terminology reflect alterations in social environment.

Journal of Family History, Vol. 9, No. 3, 217-228 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/036319908400900303


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?