Family Household between Subsistence and Social Stability

Abstract

For many analyzes, evaluating the rural households is based on their understanding as agricultural units involving subsistence which implies production capacity to provide general needs for permanent or alternating working families in this area. From the analysis of family budgets results really that a large part of income, both as product and as cash is allocated to cover the two primary needs: food and clothing, but remains a consistent part for maintenance, renovation and modernization of housing - house plus annex serving dwelling. This contributes to increasing the comfort of the family - embracing a lifestyle distinct from strictly rural - with inductions into the modern urban and household items that are totally different then the ones in those areas - stove, central heating, cable TV, domestic appliances for various services, etc. Even if we consider another criterion proposed by the well-known sociologist Sandu starting from the variation in size, which means the change of human capital - in Romania a small village with few inhabitants is considered a poor village - (Sandu, 1999) nor it does induce to a placement of such villages as poor, each being less numerous, they having other indicators that place them above these limits.