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Family Sociology
Release Date: 2017-09-221. Basic information for the course
Course Code:125362
Course: Family Sociology
Component: Compulsory courses
Hours: 32
No. of Credits: 2
Suitable users: Undergraduate students of sociology and social work
Assessment: Examination
Prerequisite Course: Introduction to Sociology
2. Course Description
This course elaborates on how the definition we have for family is influenced by social and historic background of family movement; Then, it will analyze the role of family in the society and how personal choice is affected by social structure and cultural factors. The main chapters include: family categories and change, the paradigms and research methods of family sociology, social gender, mate choice, the foundation of a family, family relations, the balance between work and family, family functions, raising children, aging process in a family, family structure, domestic violence, family stress and crisis.