This manual of Sociology of the family offers empirical bases and theoretical reasoning sufficient for the reader to answer questions such as these: Is the family a unique concept? Losing its traditional functions, does it also lose its raison d'être? Or on the contrary, does it respond to the basic needs of the individual and society?

Is it a universal institution or is it just a historical accident? Does it generate schizophrenia, alienation, totalitarianism, or rather generosity, psychosocial adjustment, altruism? Is there a correlation between marital stability and social cohesion? Will the family institution survive in the future society?

ENGLISH: Family Sociology.

This handbook on the sociology of family offers a number of facts on the family. The reader is then able to give a personal answer to the questions facing the family in our days.