2024-2025 Current Catalog
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SOCY-193 Marriage and the FamilyCredits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092, completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of ACRD-080.
This course addresses the relationships of partners through courtships marriage and parenthood with emphasis on attitudes and social adjustments which make for successful marriage.
Course Outcomes
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Explain Sociology and how sociologists study family
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Discuss diverse definitions of family today and summarize the theoretical perspectives sociologists use to avoid bias when studying families.
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Trace the history of the American family from the Colonial to the Post-modern era.
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Discuss the diversity in Native American, African American, Latino, Asian and Immigrant families.
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Explain the impact of social class position in American families.
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Summarize gender socialization in family and its relationship to the educational and occupational segregation of men and women.
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Analyze the diversity of sexual attitudes and changing behaviors in the United States.
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Summarize the diverse variables that play a role in mate selection in the post-modern era.
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Analyze current trends in marriage and cohabitation using the sociological themes of diversity, inequality and social change.
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Analyze the social construction of parenting and childhood using the sociological themes of diversity, inequality and social change.
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Discuss the dynamics of divorce and remarriage today and how both are creating diversity, inequality and social change.
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Explain how the struggle to integrate work and family is creating changes in the structure and day-to-day operations of families.
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Discuss family violence focusing on intimate partner violence, child abuse and elder abuse.
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Analyze the impact of the diverse social changes the family faces in the post-modern era.
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