The present lecture discusses problems concerning characteristic
features of the Bulgarian family – its form, structure, the average number of
its members. Special attention is paid to the different forms of the Bulgarian
family as a household. The inner family organization is considered according to
the sex and the age of the family members.
The lecture examines some innovations in the family structure of the
Bulgarians mostly characteristic of the urban family. Traditionally the village
remained a preferable object of research until the 60s of the 20th
century. Only after this period the town got into the field of study of
ethnologists because of the changes that were in progress in the Bulgarian
village resulting in its gradual depopulation and the turning of the town into
a place for making a living and adaptation for the migrated village population.
Therefore most of the ethnologic research works are devoted to the process of
transformation of the peasant into an industrial worker and the influence of
urban environment over family way of life.
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