Abstract

GAZMURI NUNEZ, Patricia M.. Family and the housing habitability: Methodological approaches for study from the sociological perspective. Arquitectura y Urbanismo [online]. 2013, vol.34, n.1, pp. 32-47. ISSN 1815-5898.

The article presents the results achieved at the first stage of a research about the preferences and expectations of the contemporary Cuban family on housing issues, in order to make some recommendations that contribute to the improvement of housing design, and the functional requirements and habitability normative of urban housing. By means of the analysis of documents, a theoretical and methodological bases was proposed in order to support the research and the study of family as a sociological category. The approaches help to analyze the conditions of habitability from a social perspective focused on family as a group of analysis.

Keywords : sociology; family; housing; habitability.

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