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Lecturer(s)
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Sýkorová Dana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topic outline: 1. Introduction to the discipline: What is today's sociology of the family about? Classical and contemporary family theories. 2. Family transformation in the late modern era. Democratization and individualization of family relationships, family dynamism, pluralization of family structures and forms. Globalization, mi-gration and partnership or family relationships. 3. Family and kinship in demographic perspective. 4. Changing meanings of partnership, parenting (motherhood, paternity). 5. Family socialization. 6. Gender aspects of power, authority and division of family work. 7. World of family and world of work. 8. Family after divorce. 9. Kinship in sociological perspective. Theory of family relations and mutual support in the fami-ly. 10. Family relationships, exchange, respectively. negotiation of assistance and support among rel-atives. 11. The other side of the family: Domestic violence. 12. Family transformations - family crisis? Paradoxes, respectively. ambivalence of family, kin-ship interaction. Solidarity and / or conflict. Personal, partner autonomy and / or social (family, family) ties.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Aims: Students will understand sociological theories of family and kinship. They will be able to analyze selected key topics of the current sociological debate on partnership and family. They will be able to use the acquired knowledge to critically evaluate phenomena and processes related to partnership, family, kinship.
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Prerequisites
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The course is based on the presentation of sociological theories of the family. Contemporary the-ories and empirical research are the basis for the presentation and critical discussion of current so-ciological approaches to partnership and family. The course aims to understand the sources, mani-festations and consequences of the growing diversity of partner and family life. Emphasis is placed on the perspective of looking at the family beyond the "nuclear family" - the aim is to cap-ture relationships in the extended family and negotiate mutual assistance with respect to re-sources, history of relations, etc. individual, family and situational variables or "rules" of negotia-tions in everyday life and in a crisis.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Continuous reading of the assigned literature (a total range of 200 pages of text in Czech and 50 pages in a foreign language). Active participation in class discussions, presentation of a paper on a given topic. Essay preparation (5 pages), which will be the basis for the colloquium.
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Recommended literature
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BECK, U., BECK-GERNSHEIM, E. (2014). Dálková láska. Praha.
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Cohen, P. N. (2014). The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change.. New York.
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GIDDENS, A. (2012). Proměna intimity. Sexualita, láska a erotika v moderních společnostech. Praha : Portál.
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Jallinoja, R., Widmer, E. D. (2011). Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe. Rules and Practices of Relatedness.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Možný, I. (2006). Rodina a společnost. Praha: SLON.
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TREAS, J., SCOTT, J., RICHARDS,M. (Eds.). (2017). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families. New York.
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WHITE, J. M., KLEIN, D. M., MARTIN, T. F. (2015). Family Theories: An Introduction. London.
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