Forms of Decision-Making and the Structure of Family Authority in the Contemporary Agrarian Family

• Main Author: First - Dilić, Ruža
• Format: Text
• Language: Croatian
• Published: Institute for social research in Zagreb 2002
• Subjects: poljoprivredna obitelj; odlučivanje; struktura moći; odnos muža i žene; agrarian family; family decision-making; structure of authority; husband-wife interaction; hist; scipo; Artide
• Online Access: https://hrcak.srce.hr/99593

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. U uvodnom dijelu članka autorica pruža cjelovit pregled ranijih istraživanja i proučavanja temelja moći u obitelji (obiteljskog autoriteta) te izlaže metode prosudbe strukture moći u nuklearnoj obitelji. Zatim je definirala koncepte (ponajprije obiteljsku moć i utjecaj) koje je rabila u vlastitoj analizi i raščlanila različite tipove autoriteta u obitelji (dominacija muža, dominacija žene, autonoman tip autoriteta, i sinkrazijski tip autoriteta). Drugi dio rada posvećen je proučavanju strukture moći u nuklearnoj poljoprivrednoj obitelji po područjima (poljima) obiteljskog odlučivanja (odluke o proizvodnji odnosno gospodarstvu, ...