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 166-266 Comparative Families and Life Courses

Note

Available as 166-366 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Jui-Shan Chang

Prerequisites

Students wishing to enrol in this subject must have completed Sociology 1A and 1B

Semester

1

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject involves students in constructing a fieldwork project drawing on their own biographies and family histories, to explore the inter-relationship between social change, family transition and individual life course. The subject is organised around a life-course perspective, exploring sociological approaches to contemporary experiences of love, sexuality, courtship, marriage formation and dissolution; family form, practice and transition; access to space and time; how family features selected for analysis affect individual identity, aspirations, and the transitions of life events.

Assessment

Essay work totalling 5,000 words

Prescribed Texts

  • M. Bittman and J. Pixley, The double-sided family. Melbourne: Longman, 1997.


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