Clementino, Maria do Livramento MirandaCapistrano, Cláudia Roseane Pereira de Araújo2017-09-152017-09-152015-02-03CAPISTRANO, Cláudia Roseane Pereira de Araújo. As configurações familiares na região metropolitana de Natal (RM/Natal): 2000 e 2010. 2015. 109f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos Urbanos e Regionais) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2015.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23922This paper is part of a Research Project linked to the Post-Graduation Program in Urban and Regional Studies (PPEUR-HFRN), whose general objective was to portrait and analyze the family configurations, with the aid of its configurations and sizes, in the municipalities of Natal Metropolitan Region (RM/Natal), taking in consideration the years 2000 and 2010. The target is to understand the social insertion of the family combinations inside the metropolitan space. it is an exploratory, documental and descriptive research describing and discussing the compositions, the typologies and the sizes of the family configurations of Natal Metropolitan Region-NMR, based on a comparative study of Demographic Censuses database of the 2010 and 2000 years. For methodological comparison between the data of these two Demographic Censuses, which underwent conceptual and classification changes in the 2010 year, what modified the family conception and incorporated it in what turned out to be the domestic unit, we preferred to work with a methodology of network research group classification named “Metropolis Observatory”, in association with PPEUR/UFRN, which developed a typology of its own, rearranged the data of the above-mentioned Demographic Censuses with the purpose of proceeding accurate comparisons and analyses on the metropolitan regions of the country. It is noticeable that the economic changes in course accelerate the socio-demographic transformations all over the world and reflect in the formation of the families, which continue to experience considerable changes affecting the configurations, compositions and sizes of the domestic units or family configurations. It was observed in the results of this research a change bias in the interior of the family configurations in the municipalities of Natal Metropolitan Region when one compares de 2000 and 2010 Demographic Censuses data. In this regard, it was verified that the composition of the domestic units named family, in its traditional form, defined in the classification from kinship bonds or “with kinship”, constitute still de massive form in the composition of the family configurations in the region, but with a decline bias accentuated enough in all municipalities compounding the NMR. Regarding the typology analysis of the family configurations, especially in what concerns couples with and without children, it was detected a percentage growth in the number of couples without children in all municipalities of the NMR. In contrast, there is a visible diminishing in the number of couples with children in practically all municipalities of the NMR, proportionally in greater number comparatively that of the couples without children. The cycle analysis allows to observe, in what matters the condition of the woman with children as well the man with children, that the maternal figure is still the principal responsible by the care and education of the children. Last but not the least, we call the attention for the changes in the family compositions and sizes, especially in the municipalities out the central nucleus of the metropolitan region, that is exactly the capital of the State, Natal.Acesso AbertoConfigurações familiaresRegião Metropolitana de NatalPolíticas sociaismasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA REGIONAL: ESTUDOS URBANOS E REGIONAIS