SOC 201 - Sociology of the Family

 
Description
This course is a study of the family and its institutional aspects. Empirical science is applied to childhood development, courtship, marriage, parenthood, bereavement, and divorce. Cultural, class, religious, ethnic, and racial differences are analyzed.

1. Describe the paired relationship.
2. Explore the background for marriage including: gender and sex-role behavior, human sexuality, societal attitudes toward human sexuality, love and dating.
3. Examine the married couple including: marriage and alternatives, remarriage, intermarriage.
4. Review conflict and adjustment in marriage.
5. Examine the family - theories, reproduction, socialization, children and the economics of the family.
6. Critique the future of the family.

1. Marriage in a changing society
2. Mate selection
3. Dating, marriage, cohabitation
4. Sexuality
5. Single life
6. Gender
7. Theories of marriage and family
8. Life cycle of marriage
9. Parents and children
10. Kinship and community
11. Types of families
12. Economics of the family
13. Socialization
14. Family problems, forecasts and other related topics

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