Sociology and Space, No. 40-42, 1973.
Original scientific paper
A Typology of Families by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Valtazar Bogišić
Cvetko Kostić
Abstract
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787—1964) and Valtazar Bogišić (1834—1908) were pioneers of several scientific disciplines among the Serbs and Croats, and among others of family sociology. Their work on the typology of South Slav families is important. This paper analyzes their work in that region, and is divided into the following sections.
Introduction
I Conflict over Terms
II Vuk’s Typology of Rural Families
III Bogišić's Typology of Serbian and Croatian Families
IV Albanian and Berber Types of Families Similar to the Joint Family, and
Conclusion.
After discussing the question of family terminology, which was disputed
during the whole 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the author turns
to Vuk S. Karadžić’s family typology. Vuk distinguished between two types of
village family: the joint family (porodična zadruga) and the nuclear family (inokosna
porodica). The first type was composed of several nuclear families, i.e.
families composed only of the husband, wife and their children. Bogišić later
accepted the foundations of this typology, but considerably expanded it. Thus
his typology includes the joint family, the nuclear family, the town family and
the Moslem family.
In his many works V. Bogišić provided much material on each of these types
of family. But in his works there is also much material on the »large families«
in Albania and among the Berbers. These types of families are fairly similar to the
joint family among the South Slavs.
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119656
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Publication date:
7.12.1973.
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