Comparing family systems in Europe and Asia. Catalogue en ligne

Titre :	Comparing family systems in Europe and Asia. (1996)
Auteurs :	Jack GOODY
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Population and development review (vol. 22, n° 1, 1996/03)
Pagination :	1-20
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Anthropologie ; Famille ; Ménage ; Asie ; Europe ; Pauvreté ; Personne âgée ; Histoire ; Recherche sociale
Résumé :	IN seeing Europe as a forerunner in the development of industrial capitalism and of lower fertility, historians have examined predisposing factors in the web of family variables that may have led to these conditions. The influential hypothesis by John Hajnal draws a sharp line between the rgimes of Europe and the rest of the world, particularly Asia. It acknowledges that mean house-hold size does not differ significantly in the two cases, but attributes the difference to the contrast between the "joint households" of the East and the single-couple arrangements of the West. This article contends that the data do not fully justify such a sharp dichotomy. In particular, the categorization exaggerates the differences with respect to internal structure and also with respect to the related problemes of family labor and service, household fission, and the public (rather than the familial) safety net for the aged poor.

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