The notion that East-Central Europe is the locus of large and complex domestic groups, and early and universal marriage has been accepted in Western social sciences and history. This course revisions that picture by: (1) re-examining the Western evidence for the divergent ‘Eastern European family pattern’; (2) confronting challenging contributions of Eastern European scholars; (3) examining large collections of previously unknown microdata from historical Eastern Central Europe. Topics like age at marriage, household composition and coresidence with kin will be examined to show diversity of family forms that goes far beyond stereotypical and artificial divisions of Europe into “Western” and “Eastern”.
Literatur:
Szołtysek, M. (2012). Spatial construction of European family and household systems: promising path or blind alley? An Eastern European perspective. Continuity and Change 27(1), 11-52.
Szołtysek M, Zuber-Goldstein B. (2009). Historical family systems and the great European divide: The invention of the Slavic East. Demográfia (English edition), 52:5, 5-47.
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