ESOn4005 Sociology of family

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Mon 12:00–13:40 3.70
Prerequisites
Elementary background in sociological theory and methodology as well as in basic demographic facts about modern families, preferably in a comparative perspectives, is expected. This is an MA-level course building upon earlier training. You need background in statistics and survey data analysis, including ability to locate, process and analyze statistical data in a statistical software of your choice (.e.g SPSS, STATA, R, SAS). If you think that your background might not be sufficient, take SOCn4003 ("Quantitative research") and SOCn6203 ("Advanced methods of demographic analysis"), or equivalent courses, first.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10
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Course objectives
Covers basic topics from the field, including family formation and dissolution, household organization, and inequality between as well as within households.
Learning outcomes
Students are familiar with major current theoretical and empirical debates in the field of the sociology of the family and can position them within overall developments in sociology
Students can analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of individual conceptual approaches, methodological tools and data sources that are common in the fields of the sociological study of contemporary family
Students can identify the limits of the sociological knowledge of contemporary families
Students can formulate research questions that would guide cutting-edge sociological research on the family
Students can – for specific research questions – identify relevant data sources and find appropriate methodological tools to analyze them
Students can produce empirical analyses of particular phenomena in the field
Syllabus
  • history of the family
  • new families: cohabitation, step-families,...
  • family and the life course
  • organization of households and division of labor in families
  • sex and reproduction
  • intergenerational relationships
  • divorce and separation
  • family and inequality
Literature
    required literature
  • LIVI BACCI, Massimo. A concise history of world population. Sixth edition. [Hoboken]: Wiley Blackwell, 2017, 300 stran. ISBN 9781119029274. info
  • POSTON, Dudley L. and Leon F. BOUVIER. Population and society : an introduction to demography. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, xiii, 519. ISBN 9781107645936. info
  • CHERLIN, Andrew J. Public & private families : an introduction. 7th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2013, xxiii, 523. ISBN 9780078026676. info
  • Handbook of population. Edited by Dudley L. Poston - Michael Micklin. New York: Springer, 2006, xiii, 918. ISBN 0387257020. info
    recommended literature
  • CHERLIN, Andrew J. Public and private families : a reader. Sixth edition. New York: McGraw-Hill companies, 2010, x, 358. ISBN 9780073404363. info
  • CHERLIN, Andrew J. The marriage-go-round : the state of marriage and the family in America today. First Vintage Books edition. New York: Vintage books, a division of Random House, 2010, 271 stran. ISBN 9780307386380. info
Teaching methods
lectures, seminars, class discussion, reading, homework, final analytical paper
Assessment methods
written tests (open questions), final analytical paper, seminar presentation(s) FINAL PAPER Final paper should be a theoretical-empirical analysis of a phenomenon related to the course contents. Ideally, it would be analytical (not purely descriptive) in nature and would focus on a previously unexplored research topic. The paper requires familiarity with methods of statistical analysis of sociological/survey data (including the ability to work with some relevant software). If you have not taken such course(s) in your pre-MA education, it is strongly recommended that you take them before signing up for Sociology of Family.
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
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