SOCIOLOGY 100 • Survey of General Sociology

    FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS

-- The Family as a social institution

-- Defining 'family': How society defines 'family' carries political, social, and economic significance.

-- Changes in 'family' through time

-- Types of families -- family of orientation and family of procreation; nuclear, bi-nuclear, blended; single-parent families; same-sex parents

-- Problems in Families -- family violence; divorce

-- Remarriage