MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Sociology
of the family
U Svensson
Synopsis This unit examines how social, political and economic forces
structure private domestic life. Topics to be discussed include the
politicisation of the family and family reform movements, a comparison of
family forms and family policies in capitalist and socialist societies, family
forms and personality construction, the social construction of parenthood and
childhood, the family as a site of gender struggles. The aim is to critically
assess different theoretical explanations within the Marxist, feminist,
functionalist and psychoanalytic perspectives.
Assessment Essay (3000 words): 50% + Two seminar papers (1200 words
each): 20% each + Seminar participation: 10%
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