This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
20 contact hours in the MT. Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in MT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Students are required to complete one formative essay and one introduction of readings.
Treas, Judith, Scott, Jacqueline & Richards, Martin (eds.) (2014) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to The Sociology of Families, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell - covers many aspects of the course. Other recommended readings include: Chambers, Deborah (2012): A Sociology of Family Life. Cambridge: Polity Press. Hochschild, Arlie (1990): The Second Shift. Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. London: Piatkus. Lareau, Annette (2011): Unequal Childhoods. Class, Race and Family Life. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. Smart, Carol & Neale, Bren (1999): Family Fragments? Cambridge: Polity Press. Smart, Carol, Neale, Bren & Wade, Amanda (2001): The Changing Experience of Childhood: Families and Divorce. Cambridge: Polity Press. Allan, Graham; Crow, Graham & Sheila Hawker (2011) Stepfamilies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Coursework (10%) in the MT. Take-home assessment (90%) in January. The first assessment, a reading diary (10%), is due on Wednesday of Week 11 of Michaelmas Term. An electronic copy of the reading diary, to be uploaded to Moodle, no later than 4.00pm on the submission day. Take home assessment to be completed during the January exam period. Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.