[EN] Following a first part which describes the class organization and distribution in Madrid in 1591,) comparing this with that o£ ieon in the same year, establishing di£ferences and drawing analogies better the two and using the same as indicative of "modernity", in the second part, following the methodological tendencies afl historical sociology, we defend a model which is demopolitical, or perhaps it would he more exact to say complementary, to the dernoeconmiical model offered, ir order to undertake a study of the family from an historical view-poiny. Family organizations, in the plural, with characteristics which are different according to multivariables. Class, economical situation, location, etc., but in which the role of priority power belonging to the male; head of the family has been consolidated, which is highly chronological with the solving of the increasing influence of roya1 power, reflected in the family, which is also shown in hierarchization, moralization and sexual economy of the family, published in ecclesiastic circler by means teh sermon and the confessional ad legitimated by Council of Trent.

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