Sociology and Space, No. 31-32, 1971.
Preliminary communication
Forms of Decision Making and the Structure of Family Authority in the Contemporary Agrarian Family
Ruža First-Dilić
Abstract
In the introduction the authoress gives a survey of earlier investigations on
the foundations of family authority and points to the methods of assessing family
authority in nuclear families. She then defines the concepts 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 af authority).
The second part of the article is devoted to a study of the structure of authority
in the nuclear agrarian family as regards sphere of family decision-making(decisions on production, housekeeping, and socialization of descendants),
of household according to source of income, and level of development o
respective rural community.
The authoress draws the basic conclusion 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 connection between the
structure of authority and sphere of family decision-making, type of household
and development level of the respective community.
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Hrčak ID:
119406
URI
Publication date:
10.6.1971.
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