The book offers a multifaceted account of the transformation of the family in Yugoslavia after WWII, under the socialist regime, and taking into account the internal heterogeneity of the Yugoslav society through systematic comparisons between its constituent parts. With the mutual conditioning between family and society as analytic backbone, family life is examined at three levels: socioeconomic (the household – production, consumption etc.), kinship (composition of the kinship group, differentiation of roles), and marriage (features of the marriage and their change through time, changing relations between spouses). The analysis is based on statistical data (on families, households, marriage, consumption) and on a secondary analysis of sociological, demographic, economic and legal research available at the time.