This article is centred around the
peasantry and family farms in an attempt
to analyze the basic dimensions of the
transformation process among the
peasantry and the modernization of
peasant farms in the recent period in
Croatia. The author based his views on
theoretical literature and on research into
this problem carried out by the University
Institute for Social Research, especially on
the results of the empirical project Social
structure and quality of life in Croatia It
gives the most recent, although
fragmentary, data about changes in certain
features of peasant farms
