| 11/23/2024 5:31:09 AM |
| Changed Course |
| CATALOG INFORMATION
|
| Discipline and Nbr:
SOC 10 | Title:
RELATIONS & FAMILY LIFE |
|
| Full Title:
Close Relationships and Family Life |
| Last Reviewed:11/27/2023 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
| |
| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
Untitled document
In this course, students will examine historical and contemporary social trends related to systems of kinship including friends, partners, families, and friends-as-family. Students will use an intersectional framework while examining social processes and forces specific to social, economic, cultural, racial, gendered, religious, technological, legal, and political inequalities, among others. Course content will include lecture, activities, storytelling, media, and discussion, and will reflect the histories and lived experiences of California Community College students.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
Untitled document
In this course, students will examine historical and contemporary social trends related to systems of kinship including friends, partners, families, and friends-as-family. Students will use an intersectional framework while examining social processes and forces specific to social, economic, cultural, racial, gendered, religious, technological, legal, and political inequalities, among others. Course content will include lecture, activities, storytelling, media, and discussion, and will reflect the histories and lived experiences of California Community College students.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | Fall 1981
| Inactive: | |
| Area: | D
| Social and Behavioral Sciences
|
| |
| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | D | Social Science | Fall 2011 | |
| | D0 | Sociology and Criminology | | |
| | E | Lifelong Learning and Self Development | | |
| | E | Lifelong Learning and Self Development | Fall 1981 | Summer 2011 |
| |
| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 4 | Social and Behavioral Science | Fall 1981 | |
| | 4J | Sociology and Criminology | | |
| |
| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
| |
| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
| |
| C-ID: |
| CID Descriptor: SOCI 130 | Introduction to Marriage and Family | SRJC Equivalent Course(s): SOC10 |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Both Certificate and Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
Untitled document
1. Identify and explain the essential concepts, theories, and research methods used in sociology to analyze relationship and kinship systems.
2. Critically assess the intersectional frameworks by which inequality and change shape, challenge, and transform relationship and kinship systems.
3. Apply their personal histories and lived experiences to course content.
Objectives:
Untitled document
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Compare and contrast the theoretical and research perspectives used in the analysis of kinship systems.
2. Identify and describe the social issues impacting kinship systems today as specific to singlehood, cohabitation, dating, marriage diversities, reproduction, adoption, parenting, step-parenting, remarriage, separation, and divorce.
3. Discuss the historical development of family as a complex social institution as influenced by colonial, socio-economic, legal, cultural, and political forces.
4. Critically assess socio-economic issues and laws impacting child rearing practices.
5. Analyze intersections of racial, ethnic, social class, and gender roles on kinship systems over the lifespan.
6. Discuss and examine patterns of abuse and violence in kinship systems.
7. Explain how social factors such as ethnicity, race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation shape patterns in kinship systems as drawn from regional, national, and international frameworks.
8. Assess the effects of an aging society and technological advancements as they impact modern kinship systems.
Topics and Scope
Untitled document
I. Introduction to the Sociological Study of Relationships, Marriages, and Family Life
A. Concepts
B. Theories
II. Research Methods in the Study of Relationships and Families
A. Qualitative
B. Quantitative
III. Trends in Contemporary Family Diversity
A. Households
B. Marriages
C. Families
IV. Historical Factors in Family Life
A. Economic
B. Social
C. Cultural
D. Technological
E. Legal
V. Work-Family Challenges
A. Gendered division of labor
B. Public policy regulating work-family issues
VI. Families and Inequality
A. Ethnicity and race
B. Social class and economic pressures
C. Gender
D. Sexuality
VII. Partnering
A. Attraction and dating
B. Dating across genders and sexualities
C. Separation and divorce
VIII. Parents and Children
A. Styles of parenting
B. Issues of parenting today
IX. Sexualities, Relationships, and Society
A. Sexualities
B. Relationships
C. Reproduction
X. Abuse and Violence in the Family
A. Child and elder abuse
B. Intimate partner abuse
C. Sexual abuse
D. Healing and domestic violence advocacy
XI. Families Throughout the Life Course
A. Sociology of childhood and adolescence
B. Aging, health, and family transition
Assignments:
Untitled document
1. Weekly reading assignments and/or multimedia engagement
2. Quizzes and/or exams on material from lectures, readings, and other media
3. Writing assignments (cumulative total of at least 1500 words) across media, such as:
A. Class exercises
B. Personal reflections
C. Reaction papers
D. Research projects
E. Journal entries
F. Online discussions
G. Annotations
H. Media analyses
4. Additional assignments as determined by instructor may include:
A. Group projects
B. Class presentations
C. Video presentations
D. Ethnographic fieldwork
E. Other
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
40 - 60% |
| Written assignments | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
40 - 60% |
| Quizzes and/or exams | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 10% |
| Additional assignments | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
Untitled document
Families Now: Diversity, Demography, and Development. Crosnoe, Robert. Worth-MacMillan. 2019.
The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change. Cohen, Philip. W. W. Norton. 2020.
Intimate Relationships, Marriages and Families. Stinnett, Nancy and Stinnet, Nick and DeGenova, Mary. Oxford University Press. 2016 (classic).
Diversity in Families. Zinn, Maxine; Eitzen, Stanley and Barbara Wells. Pearson. 2014 (classic).
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. Lareau, Annette. University of California Press. 2011 (classic).
Open Educational Resources (OER):
Print PDF