Augustyniak, Hanna2016-12-012016-12-011989Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 51, 1989, z. 3, s. 303-321.0035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/15972A full developmental cycle of a family includes the period of its formation and the shaping of procreational attitudes and behaviours. So far, relatively little attention has been paid to the problem of family formation by sociologists and demographers. The present article is an experimental study aimed at working out research tools which would allow to evaluate the links between social environment of a family, its cultural homogenity and a pattern of family formation in the period of modernization changes. The author focuses her attention on cultural environment of regional groups. These groups represent different degree of evolution of cultural transfer between the generations. One of the problems considered in the article is concerned with statistical identification of culturally homogenous groups. Patterns of family formation were analysed in both demographic and sociological aspects. Empirical material was gathered in the course of direct interviews among 3248 families living in Warmia, Mazury and Lubawa regions. The importance of the problem consists also in the fact that differentiation as to the number of children is of psycho-sociological background and is tightly connected with the period of family formation. The statistical analysis leads to the conclusion that homogenity is favourable to the retention of the specificity of the family formation pattern, whereas cultural heterogenity leads to its uniformity. It seems that changes in the.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł