Recent Directions in Family Research: India and North America

Abstract

This article reviews the recent literature of family research in India and North America. Recent studies in family research focus on a series of substantive methodological and theoretical issues. There has been a gradual increase in the quantity and quality of comparative family research related to specific ethnic groups. In India family scholarship has been largely influenced by personal interest proliferation and the changing composition of the body of researchers key scholars and sociodemographic changes in the family. In reaction to the process of adjustment following migration the family remains the major psychosocial support for its members. The joint family of India has received considerable sociological attention. The article concludes with an review of the articles contained in this issue.

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