家庭与家庭结构:概念、类型及其经验准则的反思

在社会结构的急剧变迁中,作为社会细胞的家庭也出现一些相应的变化。家庭的概念内涵正变得有些模糊难辨。社会科学研究者在将家庭作为自己研究的分析单位时,也往往与人们在日常生活中所理解的家庭有所出入。文章简要回顾既往的主流观点后,结合实际操作中的经验准则,对家庭等相关概念内涵进行了重新界定,以期作为相关领域研究和实践的反思导引。

Family and Family Structure: Concept, Type, and the Reflective of these Empirical principles

The Family is following the process of great changes that social structure undergoing as a social unity. The meaning of family comes into being obscurity. There are some differences between the family as the unity of analysis in researches of social science and that the people understand naturally in everyday life. After reviews the primary previous researches, the article redefine the family and correlative concepts based on the empirical principles in practice, and look forward its becoming an invitation to the reflection of family research.