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SOCIA 123F: Family, social change and womens roles

1. Introduction
Why study the family?
Assumptions about the family
Different level of analysis
Parameters in understanding family: form si!e fun"tion internal relationship and
e#ternal "onne"tion
2. e!ining !amily and the "ro#lem with di$ersities
Problem $ith defining family and diversities in family
%o$ards a more in"lusive definition
&ther related terms: relative ' (inship
%$o basi" family prototypes
3. %heoretical "ers"ecti$es
%he stru"tural fun"tionalist perspe"tive and its "riti"s
)ar#ist perspe"tive and its "riti*ues
+eminist perspe"tive
&. 'ong (ong !amily and womens roles
,ome basi" statisti"s about:
family form and si!e
age of first marriage
,tatisti"s "on"erning $omen-s roles:
live birth rates and fertility rates
Labour parti"ipation by se#
Labour parti"ipation rates by se# and age
Women-s role in the family
.ne*uality $ithin the family?
/ong 0ong family in de"line?
Divor"e and marriage
+amily 1iolen"e
&b2e"tives:
Dis"uss the prevalen"e of family3
4#amine the problem $ith its "onventional definition and the diversities in
family in modern so"iety3
&utline t$o family prototype3
,tudy three ma2or so"iologi"al perspe"tives and the $ay they understand family
Dis"uss the strengths and $ea(nesses of the perspe"tives
Appre"iate the of impa"t of so"ial "hange su"h as industriali!ation on family
espe"ially in terms of "hanges in the stru"ture and relationship bet$een the t$o
se#es3
)a*or +eadings:
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5hapter 8: ,tevi @a"(son +amilies /ouseholds and Domesti" Life 688<6A7
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the Trees: An Introduction to Sociological Thinking /ar"ourt ?ra"e @ovanovi"h
5ollege Publishers 67763
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Arlene ,3 ,(olni"( and @erome /3 ,(olni"( Family in Transition 6=th edition
Pearson 200A
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Beading 2A: Arlie /o"hs"hild $ith Anne )a"hung %he ,e"ond ,hift: Wor(ing
Parents and the Bevolution at /ome C=C<C803
Giddens- boo( 5hapter A is largely relevant and you $ill "ome a"ross some
information $ith regard to ?ritish family $hi"h . did not mention in the le"ture3
Any$ay it $ould be useful for you to (no$ something about family in another
so"iety3
As far as the /0 data is "on"erned . only identify a 5hapter on family in a 5hinese
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$omen%s status by 5heung +anny )3 :ed3; /ong 0ong: %he 5hinese Gniversity Press
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