Original scientific paper
Forms of Decision-Making and the Structure of Family Authority in the Contemporary Agrarian Family
Ruža First - Dilić
; Department of Rural Socioloqy, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Rumi Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture of the Univesity of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - Yugoslavia
Abstract
In the introduction the authoress gives a survey of earlier researches and studies of the
foundations of family authority and points to the methods of assessing family authority in
nudear families. She the n defines the concepts (in the first place, family authority and
family influence) used in her analyses and discusses various types of authority (domination
of the husband, domination of the wife, the autonomous type, and the syncratic type
of authority).
The second part of the artide is devoted to a study of the structure of authority in the nudear
agrarian family as regards sphere of family decision-making (decisions on production,
housekeeping, and socializarion of descendants), rype of household according to
source of income, and level of development of the respective rural community. The data
were collected in 1969 within the research project "The Status of Women in Rural Family
and Society in SR Croatia«.
The authoress draws the basic condusion that the contemporary agrarian family - in addition
to the comparatively marked traditional patterns of decision-making - is beginning to
reveal new, egalitarian forms of family decision-making and that (with certain minor exceptions)
there exists a marked statistically significant connection between the structure of
authority and sphere of family decision-making, type of household and .development level
of the respective community.
Keywords
agrarian family; family decision-making; structure of authority; husband-wife interaction
Hrčak ID:
99593
URI
Publication date:
21.9.2003.
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