La storia della famiglia nella storiografia europea: alcuni problemi

The history of `the family¿ is a relatively recent field of study, which has had a great development as from the 1970s having its most important time in the 1980s and the earliers years on the 1990s. The studies of the history of the family have taken several directions but there are two main and contradictory approaches. The first approach which was widely spread at first states that the family has been a fundamental component of the interelated processes of capitalism, industrialization and the so-called modernization. The second approach has argued the theoretical basis of the first approach, especially its methodology and over all its evolutionist principles. Thus, this approach opens the discussion on personal relathionships in the study of the society