SOCI 2043 - Marriage and Family in Society

• Compare and contrast the American constructions of marriage, family, cohabitation, and intimate relationships using a global comparative approach. 
• Analyze family and marriage using a sociological perspective and apply the three sociological paradigms to family structure and life. 
• Analyze the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation on marriage and family life. 
• Evaluate how sexuality, partner choice, child socialization, communication patterns, separation, and divorce impact marriage and families. 
• Critically evaluate statistics and research techniques about families and households.
• Recognize the effects of education, economics, politics, religion, and other social institutions on marriage and family life.
• Describe how technology has influenced the structures of marriage and family over time and predict how technological innovations may impact marriage and family in the future.
• Explain current social change and policy issues, problems, and trends associated with families.
   

• Students gain greater awareness of cultural perspectives.

• Students develop higher order thinking skills.

• Analyze communications in intimate relationships, expectations, sexuality, dating, single life, and partner selection. 
• Discuss cross cultural variation in how marriages and families are constructed. 
• Apply sociological theories to explain variations in marriage and family structures. 
• Analyze the current trends in marriage, family, and kinship patterns. 
• Evaluate cultural responses and perspectives to variations in marriage and family structures. 
• Analyze the different ways in which dissolutions of family and marriage occur by looking at remarriage and family law. 
• Analyze the different ways families and marriages are planned. 
• Evaluate the different challenges from parenthood and the different life stages. 
• Examine through a comparative analysis the family structure, family conflict, and the dual-worker family.