Cultura familiei și cercetarea monografică a acesteia în viziunea Xeniei Costa-Foru

Monographic research of the family in Xenia Costa–Foru’s vision The sociological monograph, in Xenia Costa-Foru's vision, is the method by which sociology systematically gathers concrete data for its reasoning. In order to make this concrete data collection, the sociologist has direct contact with the society he observes systematically, based on hypotheses previously elaborated by the research. By this method, a methodological definition is formulated for the family, facilitating the outline of an operational concept that allows systematization of field observations. In the author's view, the family represents the socio-affective environment that ensures both the socialization and integration of its members in the social life, as well as the permanence and continuity of the family, as well as a framework of material support and social protection for them. The author also considers the family to be an institution between the individual and the society, a "tool" for contacting the individual with the environment. By fulfilling a certain functional role within society, the family is considered by the author to be in permanent contact with society itself. „The monographic research of the family. Methodological Contribution” by Xenia Costa- Foru (social worker), which appeared in Bucharest in 1945 at the “King Mihai I” Foundation Publishing House (323 pages), is the result of a rich investigation of the rural family, carried out for 12 years at the" Sociology Seminar” of Professor Dimitrie Gusti.