This paper represents an attempt to perceive the impact of the socio-economic crisis in Serbia on kinship from the ethnological viewpoint. This paper is primarily intended to point out the manner in which the economic conditions and the specific cultural rules influence the structure of the kinship network and the functioning of kinship relations. The research has been located in the town of Vranje area and its immediate surroundings among the Serb population, and chronologically it includes the period from the end of the eighties to the end of the nineties of the 20th century.
