Households in Macedonia – communities of persons associated with common housing and business and jointly spend their income. Household may constitute one person (sater households). During the socio-economic development, there have been large transformation. The large extended patriarchal family communities (cooperatives), as households composed of members of several individual families, to the recent past, a typical form of family life in Macedonia, but disappear in the process of socio-economic development and especially during the few decades of accelerated deagram , industrialization and urbanization after World War II. The number of members of individual households has steadily declined. According to the Census of the population since 1921, the average number of members of a household in Macedonia was 5.15 people, with rural households numerous after 5.73, and households in cities after 4.44 members. Statistical data for 1989 They point out that the agricultural households counted an average of 4.81 members, non-agricultural after 3.82, while mixed households, as a new category that began to be formed since earlier (with the beginnings of industrialization), 4,62 members. Changes in this regard can be seen from the latest statistics: the average number of members of a household declined from 5.2 members in 1961 was reduced to 3.58 members in 2002. Very larger and economical aspect is extremely important are the changes that occurred in terms of production-consumption function and the role of households, labor organization and the division of work, the place of individual household members and especially the position of the woman, etc. In economic terms, the production communities households were transformed into full consumer communities. We are increasingly overcome and the strict traditional division of works of typical “male” and “female”. The family government can not be said to be concentrated in the hands of a man, as was in the former conditions of the traditionally-patriarchal lifestyle. Through the education and vocational training system, the woman provides an unreasonable basis for its economic independence and social emancipation. The educational function of contemporary family communities and households is completely changed. Family and household are no longer the only and most important factor of socialization. For raising children in intellectual, moral and cultural view, the significance of the so-called. Secondary factors of social socialization, such as peers, pre-school institutions and institutions of all levels of education, mass media for communication and social information, as well as all other, numerous and different types of groups, means and influences. In the current latest and fully modified conditions, the processes of spatial and even more on the social distancing of individual families and households, as well as the members of the family communities themselves, continues. Lit.: Hristo Cartolov, Sociology of the village, Skopje, 1996; Risto Hristov, Sociology, Skopje, 1994. R. H.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис ДОМАЌИНСТВА ВО МАКЕДОНИЈА