Syllabus
1) Possibilites and methods of family history research - sources
2) Family members, types of kinship
3) Family and household, family structures
4) The head of family, woman as the household head
5) Life cycles
7) Choice of partner, premarital and extramarital sexual relationships
8) Old people in the families
9) Pre-industrial families, modern families
10) Divorce
Annotation
The course introduces the problem of household and family research from the historic point of view. The course explains various family and households concepts, types of households, the family life cycle.