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Course name | Sociology of Work and Occupation |
Course ID | 0314-WP-PED-SPIZ |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
Field of study | WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Pedagogy |
Education profile | - |
Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
Beginning semester | winter term 2018/2019 |
Head faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
ECTS credits to win | 5 |
Course type | obligatory |
Teaching language | english |
Author of syllabus |
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The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
The aim of the subject is providing students with complex knowledge of issue of family and marriage. The extra aim is preparing students for implementing knowledge of this form of life and making diagnosis of contemporary types of family life.
No special prerequisites
Lecture:
Family as primary group and reference group
Family as social institution
Family function and its structure
Collectivism and individualism vs traditional type of family
Types of marriage and family
Situation of modern polish family – do we have crisis of family?
Classes:
Marriage selection. Theories and models.
Changes of function and internal structure of family.
Knowledge sources about marital roles.
Changes of family life – theories of I. and II. demographic transition.
Alternatives forms of family life.
Disorganisation and pathology of family.
Lecture: lecture with discussion.
Class: class discussion. Small groups discussion. Multimedia learning process – using Power Point presentations, use of filmstrips, recordings etc. Open textbook study. Problem solving or case studies.
Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Class: Credit with grade on the basis of presentation and written papers. The class will be divided into discussion/presentation groups. Students will organize and prepare oral presentations and demonstrations to the class explaining assigned chapters from the texts. Each student is likely to make one presentation during the semester.
Lecture: written examination
Final grade will be the average of class and exam credit.
1. Bittman M., Pixley J. “The Double Life of the Family, Myth, Hope and Experience”, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1997.
2. Brian W., Stacey S., Carl W. “Marriages, families, and intimate relationships: A practical Introductions” (2nd Edition), Pearson, Boston 2008.
3. Hochschild A.R., Machung A. „The Second Shift”. Penguin Books, New York 2003.
*The subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.
Modified by dr Magdalena Zapotoczna (last modification: 11-04-2018 17:07)