This course introduces the scientific study of human society, culture, and social interactions.
Topics include socialization, research methods, diversity and inequality, cooperation and conflict, social change, social institutions, and organizations.
Sociology of the family is a subfield of the subject of sociology, in which researchers and academics study family structure as a social institution and unit of socialization from various sociological perspectives.
It can be seen as an example of patterned social relations and group dynamics.
Course Description
This course focuses on families in the contemporary U.S.
It will introduce you to how sociologists study families and along with them, topics that seem very personal, emotional and important to many of us—ideals about love, marriage, gender, parenthood, sex and sexuality—scientifically.