ABSTRACT
In the various phases of its development, social anthropology has had different characteristic problems. One recurrent theory, which forms the subject of this paper, concerns changes in the structure of family and kin ties, and associates them with changes in the economic aspects of a society. This chapter emphasizes their professional orientation, since it has some significance in the outcome of their discussion. World War II period has documented one gross empirical regularity that in all parts of the world and for the first time in world history all social systems are moving fast or slowly towards some form of the conjugal family system and also toward industrialization. The chapter examines the change in kinship in Yugoslavia as an example of a society rapidly becoming more industrialized, and attempted to show that simple generalizations about disintegration may be inappropriate.
