ESOn4005 Sociology of the Family

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2021
Rozsah
1/1/0. 10 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Po 10:00–11:40 3.70
Předpoklady
SOUHLAS
Elementary background in sociological theory and methodology as well as in basic demographic facts about modern families, preferably in a comparative perspectives. This course elaborates on selected topics from SOCn6202 "Population studies". This is an MA-level course building upon earlier training. If you think that your background might not be sufficient, take SOCn4003 ("Quantitative research") and SOCn6203 ("Advanced methods of demographic analysis") first.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 10 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/10, pouze zareg.: 0/10, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/10
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 7 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
Course serves as (partial) preparation for the MA State exam in the elective field "Population studies". Covers basic topics from the field, including family formation and dissolution, household organization, and inequality between as well as within households.
Výstupy z učení
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
Osnova
  • 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
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • 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
    doporučená literatura
  • LIVI BACCI, Massimo. A concise history of world population. 5th ed. Malden Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, xiv, 271. ISBN 9780470673201. info
  • POSTON, Dudley L. a Leon F. BOUVIER. Population and society : an introduction to demography. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xv, 456. ISBN 9780521872874. info
  • 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
  • CHERLIN, Andrew J. Marriage, divorce, remarriage. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard university press, 1981, xiv, 142. ISBN 0674550811. info
Výukové metody
lectures, seminars, class discussion, reading, homework
Metody hodnocení
written tests (open questions), final analytical paper, seminar presentation(s)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2022, podzim 2023.