Sociology of the Family. ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

Analyzes marriages and family issues from a sociological perspective. Teaches different theoretical perspectives regarding family issues, diversity of marriage and family styles, factors affecting marriage and family styles, and research findings on family matters. Examines the meaning of marriage and the family, variations in American family life, gender and family, intimacy, friendship, love, communication, power, and conflict, singlehood and cohabitation, parenthood, marriage and work, intimate violence, separation and divorce, single-parent families, remarriages, and blended families.