Economic and Ecologic Determinants of Household Organisation in the Northeastern Baltic Region
Author(s)
Moring, Beatrice
Abstract
The aim of this article is to contest the monocausal cultural explanation model for the existence of the eastern Finnish family system linked to an imaginary Hajnal line. By comparing two localities in the eastern part of Finland with common religion, language, political history and legislation but with different ecology and economy and household system, a case is made for the link between economic activity and household organization.
