Family and Modernization in the Saxon Community of Transylvania. Case Study
Family and Modernization in the Saxon Community of Transylvania. Case Study

Summary/Abstract: Transylvania went through a slow but incontestable modernization process in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth that was especially visible at a macrostructural level. To what lengths did this evolution reach the deeper level of the social body? We tried to approach this problem from the perspective of the family by selecting a number of indicators tied directly or indirectly to the family universe suitable for a quantification of this transition toward modernism. The starting premise was that modernization is a process that brings along a liberalization on a multitude of levels. This hypothesis has been verified in three different contexts: the socio-economical, the religious and the most private, that of the intimate life of couples.

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