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 (Soc220)   Sociology of the Family

        (Social and Behavioral Sciences  Midlands Technical College) 

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 Sociology of the Family (Spring 2010) 

Chapters                             Study Topics                    

Chapter 1    Understand Marriages and Families: Sociological Imagination and Historical Analysis 

Chapter 2      Studying Marriages and Families: Theoretical perspectives and Methodological Techniques.         

Chapter 3    Sex / Gender and Intimate Relationships  

Chapter 4    Love As a Social Construction    

Chapter 5    Relationship Formation Processes: Dating, Coupling and Mate Selection   

Chapter 6    Sexuality and Intimate Relationships

Chapter 7    Nonmarital Lifestyles

Chapter 8    Marriage Experience

Chapter 9      Reproduction and Parenting

Chapter 10    The Family and Work Connection     

Chapter 11      Power, Abuse and Violence in Intimate Relationships

Chapter 12     Divorce

 Chapter 13    Remarriage and Remarried Families.        

Chapter 14      Marriage and Family in Later Life

Chapter 15    Prospect the Future/ Social Policy/A Comparative Perspective


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03/16/10