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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Glenda MacNaughton.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture/discussion session each week. Films and video presentations will be used.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- identify the nature and concerns of the discipline of sociology;
- demonstrate an understanding of the different sociological perspectives;
- critically analyse competing paradigms in studies of childhood, socialisation and the family;
- demonstrate an understanding of the social influences on the development of the socialisation process with particular reference to primary socialisation within the family; and
- develop a critical awareness of the traditional nuclear family and of alternative patterns of family life that exist in Australia.
Content:
An exploration of the sociological dimensions of child development with particular emphasis on the concept of socialisation and the institution of the family; students will be introduced to the different theoretical approaches to the study of human behaviour within the discipline of sociology and encouraged to critically evaluate these theories; these frameworks will then be applied to the analysis of socialisation, the family, childhood and the wider society.
Assessment:
A task and an essay, totalling approximately 5,000 words.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Kew Campus) (Volume 5 page 50)
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