TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY IN ASSESSMENTS OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS OF STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ
TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY IN ASSESSMENTS OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS OF STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ

Author(s): Marina Matejević, Jelisaveta Todorović, Dragana Jovanović
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: systemic family approach; parenting styles; subsystems interaction; gender differences; family functioning assessment
Summary/Abstract: Systemic perspective was used in considering the family relationships. According to the systemic approach to family, family functioning cannot be understood as a sum of individual family members’ functioning. Family is a system composed of subsystems’ components: partner subsystem, parent subsystem, the subsystem formed by children and at the same time family is seen as a part of the ecological suprasystem with which it exchanges energy and information. For understanding of the way family functions it is very important to understand the relationship between these subsystems as well as the relationship between the family and its surrounding. Applying the general systems theory on family and its functioning, it can be said that the parts of the family - its subsystems are in a constant exchanging, and that the behaviour of certain members cannot be understood in isolation from the other part of the subsystem. The family as a system works through transactional patterns which consist of repeated interactions which establish the pattern of behaviour.

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