SOC 1210 - Soc of Familes/The Family

Institution:

Yeshiva University

Subject:

Sociology

Description:

Provides an introduction to sociological perspectives on families and US public policies aimed at families. Focusing on the contemporary United States, the course includes an overview of family patterns and changes over the past several decades, examining family formation and dissolution, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, remarriage, and fertility, with attention to variation in families by gender, race and ethnicity and class. We will explore how the worlds of work and family intersect and conflict, considering both paid and unpaid labor (housework, childcare) We will dicuss the private family the one in which we live most of our personal lives as well as the public family in which adults perform tasks that are important to society. I.E: Rearing children, caring for the elderly. We will examine how society provides for themselves (welfare programs) and how society regualtes family beahvior

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 960-5400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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