Vera Stein Erlich
• Family in Transition: A Study of 300 Yugoslav Villages
• Research done in 1937.

• Published 1964.
Research goal
• To understand differences in family life in different parts of the
country experiencing various degrees of economic development and
modernization


• From modernized industrial north to traditional south
Key idea
• Family relations in Yugoslavia are determined by the level of
modernization (duration of cultural patterns)


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• „in some parts it seemed as if the way of life remained unchanged for
a thousand years, whereas in others it was adapted to the values of
Western Europe” (str. 23)
In short…
• Traditional patriarchy vs. modern family
Seven cultural-historical regions
A mediterranean city (Split)
Mitteleuropa (Ljubljana)
Ottoman city (Sarajevo)
• The Ottoman rule (white
spaces parts of eather
Habsburg monarchy,
Venetian Stato da mar
and the small territory of
Dubrovnik republic.
Literacy in
Yugoslavia (19319
•Referendum on the definition
of marriage


•- blue = anti gay marriage