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SO/WS 223 Marriage and
the Family Syllabus
University of North Alabama - Department of Sociology
SOC 206:
SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY - Syllabus
Fall, 2003 - GettysburgCollege - Instructor: Jean L. Potuchek
Georgetown University - Department of Sociology and Anthropology - Syllabus
The
Power of Kinship: Family and Politics in the Modern World
Cameron
University - Syllabus - Historical overview of the American family
SOC 281, Sociology of Families, Glenda Gross - Maxwell School
Syllabus- Syracuse Univ.
This class focuses on the study of American families. We will look at a variety of ways of
defining family, how families operate as public and private institutions, the formation
and dissolution of families, and some of the issues facing families today. The course will
emphasize the interpretation of the family as a social institution and we will use
sociological theories and methods to guide our discussions. Grading will be based on
weekly quizzes, two short papers, and a final take-home essay exam. Meets Liberal Arts
core critical reflection requirement. - http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/
Georgetown University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Family Interaction Syllabus- Professor Hall
Although this course includes a careful consideration of broad social influences on
families, a major emphasis is placed on family dynamics between family members in at least
three different generations of the same families. We will also examine the usefulness of
conceptualizing families as relatively closed social systems, with repeated patterns of
behavior, in different social classes, races, and ethnic groups, and with different sexual
orientations.
Life history data will be collected and used to illustrate varied patterns of family
interaction. Each class member is responsible for collecting data from at least three
generations of one family for class presentation, discussion, and group project research.
Substantive topics examined include:
“Vertical” relationships between different generations in the same families;
Differences in socialization in the same families and among different families;
The impact of death and other kinds of loss on family members;
Profiles of behavior of different sibling positions and sibling rivalry;
Family life cycle events (growth and development, courtship and marriage, parenting and
old age, etc.);
Health and disability of family members;
Conformity and deviance in patterns of family interaction;
Family processes and religious affiliation;
Ethnic group and social class differences and similarities in family exchanges;
Individual responsibility and family membership.
Frames of reference used for class discussions and research are based on Murray
Bowen’s family systems theory as well as on established sociological perspectives.
Required Readings
Anderson, Stephen A. and Ronald M. Sabatelli, 1999 (2nd edition), Family Interaction: A
Multigenerational Developmental Perspective, Needham Heights, MA, Allyn and Bacon.
Hall, C. Margaret, 1981 (2nd edition), Individual and Society: Basic Concepts, Boonsboro,
MD, Antietam Press.
Scanzoni, John, 2000, Designing Families: The Search for Self and Community in the
Information Age, Thousand Oaks, CA, Pine Forge Press.
Cameron
University - Historical overview of the American family
This course introduces students to an historical overview of the American family, the
intersections of class, gender, and race within the family, and issues impacting families.
Program Objectives:
Students will be able to demonstrate competency in the core areas of sociology and
critical thinking.
Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to apply sociological theories to a
variety
of sociological phenomena and human behavior.
Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in writing (including
following directions, the use of proper grammar, spelling, and citations).
Required Texts:
The Family, 9th Ed. by J. Ross Eshleman.
Marriage and Family: An Introduction Using MicroCase, 2nd ed., by Kevin Demmitt.
Tentative Course Schedule
Unit 1: Chs.: 1-2, 8, 11
Introduction; overview of family theory and methods; family images; the family of the
past, industrialization; inequality; economic and demographic changes
Unit 2: Chs.: 9-10, 3, 13
Minority families; work and family; gender roles; socialization
Unit 3: Chs.: 4-7
Dating; singlehood; mate selection; marriage, marital success, and power/decision making
Unit 4: Chs.: 12, 16, 15, 14, 17
Parenting and childhood; divorce and remarriage; family violence; lifestyle variations;
family of the future; and social policy
Georgetown University - Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The Power of
Kinship: Family and Politics in the Modern World
Professor Ossman
The passage of state power through blood ties is generally perceived as a relic of our
political past. Yet all we need to do is turn on our televisions or open newspapers around
the world to observe new forms of family power are taking shape before our very eyes. This
might appear unsurprising in the context of monarchies like Morocco and Jordan. It might
provoke snickers with respect to a Republic like Syria or a communist regimes such as
North Korea, where it seems simply another manifestation of the ways that such regimes
contradict their stated precepts. It can appear puzzling in situations like India, where
an Italian-born woman can assume an important political role through marriage. It might
seem simply the result of the need for gossip for the tabloids in England or in the United
States. But everywhere, it seems, the importance of family ties persists in spite of what
some sociologists theorized would be the end of diminution of the importance of the family
with the advent of modern democratic individualism. This class will examine the
persistence and development of forms of family power today. It will ask students to
examine relationships between kinship and power from a comparative perspective in order to
come to a better understanding of how the media, state formations and personal practices
are related to emerging forms of kin politics.
In the course of examining a number of case studies drawn from the Arab World, Europe, the
United States and Asia, students will be introduced to classical texts on kinship and
family and read a series of important recent studies on the subject of kinship and power
by anthropologists, media studies scholars, historians and political scientists. They will
gain practice in textual and social analysis in the context of class assignments and then,
by conducting a personal research project.
SOC 206: SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY
GettysburgCollege - Instructor: Jean L. Potuchek
Readings
The following required readings for the course are either available for purchase at the
College Store or on reserve (in Musselman Library and as electronic reserves):
Books to Purchase:
Susan J. Ferguson (editor), Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families (2nd
edition) (Ferguson)
Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale (Ulrich)
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., et al., Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent
Success (Furstenberg Et Al.)
Raquel Kennedy Bergen, Wife Rape: Understanding the Response of Survivors and Service
Providers (Bergen)
Anita Ilta Garey, Weaving Work & Motherhood (Garey)
Reserve Readings:
Phillip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz, American Couples, excerpts (Blumstein &
Schwartz)
Tamara Hareven, Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship between the Family and
Work in a New England Industrial Community, pp. xi and 154-188 (Hareven)
Assignments
Integrative Essay:
In lieu of a mid-term exam, each student will write an "integrative essay,"
designed to help you think about and integrate course material. The integrative essay will
be 5-7 typed pages (1200-1800 words), will cover Parts 1 and 2 of the course and is due on
Monday, October 20. The topic for the essay is as follows:
Evaluate Tilly and Scott's theory about the relationship between family change and
economic change. How well do the substance and sequence of Tilly and Scott's three stages
fit what you know about families from various times and places? How would you extend or
revise the theory to explain the relationship between family change and economic change at
the beginning of the twenty-first century in the United States?
PART 1: DEFINITIONS OF THE FAMILY
Introductions
Discussion – What is Family?
Ferguson: Introduction to Part I, Readings 1, 3
Discussion – Family Definitions Applied
Blumstein & Schwartz
Lecture – Family as a Social Institution
Ferguson: Introduction to Part II
Discussion – Diversity in Family Forms and Functions
Ferguson: Readings 2, 6, 7, 8
PART 2: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN FAMILY
Lecture - Family, household, and work
Ferguson: Reading 5
Discussion - Family, work, and the preindustrial household
Ulrich, pp. 36-101
Discussion - Gender and marriage in the preindustrial family
Lecture - Industrialization and family ideology
Discussion - Changing family functions and intimacy
Ulrich, pp. 162-234
Discussion - Work and family in the industrial economy
Lecture - The historical creation of childhood
Discussion - Parent/child relationships in the family economy
Ulrich, pp. 262-308
PART 3: RELATIONSHIPS IN FAMILIES
Lecture - Family Roles and Childrearing
Discussion - Becoming Parents
Ferguson: Readings 17, 23, 24
Discussion - Social Context and Parenting Practice
Furstenberg et al., Chapter 4
Ferguson: Readings 19, 21, 22
Discussion - Parent-Child Relationships
Furstenberg et al., Chapters 5 & 6
Ferguson: Readings 33, 34
Discussion - Social Context and Parenting Outcomes
Furstenberg et al., Chapters 7, 8, & 9
Lecture - Courtship and Mate Selection
Ferguson: Introduction to Part III,
Discussion - The Pair Bond: Spouses and Partners
Ferguson: Introduction to Part IV,
Lecture - Family Power
Ferguson: Reading 11
Discussion – Family Violence
Ferguson: Introduction to Part VIII, Readings 30, 31, 32
Discussion – Marital Rape
Bergen, pp. 1-63
Lecture - Power and marital violence
Ferguson: Reading 29
Discussion – Responses to Marital Rape
Bergen, pp. 64-109
PART 4: THE FAMILY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
Work-Family Links
Lecture – The gendered connections of family and work
Ferguson: Introduction to Part X, Readings 36, 38
Discussion - The Meanings of Women's Work
Garey, Chapters 1 and 2
Discussion - Social Class, Gender, and Work
Garey, Chapters 3 and 4
Lecture – The Cult of True Womanhood and family economic strategies
Ferguson: Reading 37
Discussion - Family economic strategies
Garey, Chapters 5, 6, and 7
Garey, Chapter 8
Families, Public Policy and the Future
Lecture - Families and public policy
Ferguson, Introduction to Part XII
Discussion - Divorce and public policy
Ferguson: Introduction to Part VII,
Discussion - Family poverty and family policies
Ferguson: Introduction to Part XI,
Discussion - Family policies and family ideologies
Ferguson: Readings 18, 44, 45
Lecture – The future of families
Ferguson: Readings 4, 35
Discussion - Family definitions and policies for the future
Ferguson: Readings 15, 43
SO/WS 223 Marriage and
the Family
University of North Alabama - Department of Sociology
Professor: S. Alexander Takeuchi, Ph.D. (aka "Dr. T")
Phone: (256) 765-4527 / e-mail: satakeuchi@una.edu
Web:www2.una.edu/Takeuchi/
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
This course examines the origin and evolution of the family as a social group, social
system and social institution. It also examines the relationship of the family to the
larger society. Particularly, the course focuses on the interrelationships among family
members and how the family as a social system affects such interrelationships.
Simultaneously, the course also focuses on the process of mate selection which brings
individuals together to form a core of the family system as well as the adjustments of its
members to different marital and family roles over the life cycle of the family.
Although the study of marriage and the family is an interdisciplinary field of
social/behavioral science, our primary theoretical orientation is placed on the paradigms
and concepts developed in the field of sociology. Therefore, the course also introduces
the students to some of the fundamental theories, principles and concepts of sociology. We
will do this by examining various family related issues we encounter in our daily life.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Eshleman, J. R. (2003). The Family. (10th Ed.). Allyn and Bacon.
Week 1 Course Introduction
Week 2 Defining the Family and Marriage Ch 1
Week 3 Marriage & the Family: Theoretical Approach Ch 1
Week 4 Marriage, Family and Kinship Organization Ch 2
Week 5 The Family and Work Roles Ch 3
Week 7 Patterns of Marriage Ch 8
Week 8 Religious and Racial/Ethnic Inter-Marriage Ch 8
Week 9 Explanations of Partner Selection Ch 9
Week 10 More Issues on Partner Selection (Lecture only materials)
Week 12
3/31 (Wed) Exam #2 (Ch 8, 9 and lecture materials)
4/2 (Fri) Exam #2 returned and intro. to the next chapter.
Week 13&14 Sexual Norms and Relationships Ch 10
Week 15 Parenthood and Marital Quality Portions of Ch 11
Week 16 Parental Roles Portions of Ch 12
Week 17 Parent-Child Relationship Portions of Ch 13
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