Course Title:
Modern Family
Course Description:
Examines the family as theoretical construct and as social reality from approximately 1600 to the present, in Europe and America. Attempts to understand the social meanings of “the family” by looking at the different forms it has taken in different locations at different times; the historical significance of kinship and household; and at the ways in which “the family” has been constituted by different ideological and political systems. Uses film, literature, and primary documentary sources to examine practices of marriage and sexuality; the family in relation to capitalism, socialism, and the state; the development of welfare state policy; racial and ethnic differences in family practices; and the dynamics of gender within families.
Fall Offering:
None
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Summer Offering:
None
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Summer 1 Offering:
None
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Summer 2 Offering:
None
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Prerequisite 5:
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Repeatable:
N
