SOCY336 A Sociology of Families and Family Lives
Updated: 06 January 2009| Credit Points | 6 | |||||||||
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| Online level | Level D - Comp/internet essential | |||||||||
| Intensive School(s) | None | |||||||||
| Supervised Exam | There is no UNE Supervised Examination. | |||||||||
| Pre-requisites | SOCY100 or CRIM100 | |||||||||
| Co-requisites | None | |||||||||
| Restrictions | SOCY236 | |||||||||
| Notes | None | |||||||||
| Combined Units | None | |||||||||
| Coordinator(s) | Gail Hawkes (ghawkes@une.edu.au) | |||||||||
| Unit Description |
This unit will examine past and current sociological theories and deconstructions of families and family lives. It will equip students with the necessary tools to critically examine the range and complexity of intimate relationships that are currently experienced as 'families' in the Anglophone West. Equipped with these tools, students will be able to range across a number of substantive issues: fatherhood, fertility and technology; children and childhood; popular stereotypes of 'the family'; 'fur children'; same sex parenting; aging and intimacy; kinship and intimacy; family violence. |
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| Prescribed Material Mandatory |
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| Disclaimer | Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period. |