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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Sociology & Anthropology
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Talia Sagiv
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed.
9:00-10:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Talia Sagiv
Course/Module description:
The course focuses on the family, and on changes in family structure, while examining a range of sociological issues such as ethnicity, culture gender and class.
Course/Module aims:
To familiarize the students with the main issues in this field of research
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will be able to write a text about families, integrating various sociological perspectives
Attendance requirements(%):
90%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures and discussions
Course/Module Content:
The family from multiple perspectives: Gender, ethnicity, class and nationality
Required Reading:
Jallianoja, R. & Widmer, E.D. (2011). Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave-Macmillan. Pp 3- 28.
Lareau, A. (2000). Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital. In R. Arum & I. Beattie (Eds.) The Structure of Schooling. (chapter 26). Mountain View CA: Mayfield Publishing.
Lareau, A., (2015). "Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality", American Sociological Review, Vol. 80, No. 1, 1-27.
Ben Ari, A & Livni. T. (2006). Motherhood Is not a Given Thing: Experiences and Constructed Meanings of Biological and Nonbiological Lesbian Mothers. Sex Roles, 54(7-8), 521–531.
Berkowitch, N. (1997). Motherhood as a national mission: the construction of womanhood in the legal discourse in Israel. Women's Studies International Forum, 20, 5-6, 605-619.
Boyd, S.B., 2007. Gendering legal parenthood: Bio-genetic ties, intentionality and responsibility. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 25, pp.63-94.
Apple, D. Rima. 2006. Perfect Motherhood. Rutgers University Press.
Golombok, Susan. 2000. Parenting: What really counts? Routledge.
Gray P.B. & Kermyt G.A. 2010. Fatherhood, Harvard university press
Hoghughi, M. & Long, N. (Eds). 2004. Handbook of Parenting: Theory and research for practice. Sage Publications.
Laing. R. D. the polotics of the family 1972 Vintage books, NY.
Narayan, Uma and Bartkowiak, J. Julia. 1999. Having and raising children: Unconventional Families, hard choices and the social good. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Parkin, R. Kinship: an introduction. 1997. Blackwell publishers.
Dally A. 1982. Inventing motherhood. Buurnett books Ltd.
Binger J.J. 2010. Parent-Child Relations. Merrill, Columbus Ohio
Levin Irene and Sussman B. Marvin (eds) 1997. Stepfamilies: History, Research and Policy. The Haworth Press, Inc.
Lupton D. & Barclay L. 1997. Constructing Fatherhood: discourses and experiences. Sage publication.
Maddox, Brenda. 1967. The Half Parent: Living with other people's children. London : A. Deutsch
Parenthood in a Time of Transition: Tensions between Legal, Biological, and Social Conceptions of Parenthood
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Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. The Reproduction ofMotbering: Psychoanalysis and the Socioloa of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Howell, Signe. 2009. Adoption of the Unrelated Child: Some Challenges to the Anthropological Study of Kinship. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2009. 38:149–66
Jeremiah, E. (2006). Motherhood to Mothering and beyond: Maternity in recent feminist thought. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 8(1-2) 21-33.
Additional Reading Material:
Berkowitch, N. 1997. Motherhood as a national mission: the construction of Womanhood in the legal discourse in Israel. Women's Studies International
Friedan, Betty. 1992. [1963]. The Feminine Mystique. London: Penguin.
Gallagher, J. 2015 MPs say yes to three-person babies. BBC News. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31069173 accessed 22 July 2016
Daniluk, J. C., & Hurtig-Mitchell, J. (2003). Themes of hope and healing: Infertile couples' experiences of adoption. Journal of Counseling & Development, 81(4), 389-399.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 90 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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Additional information:
Written assignments
The reading materials include both academic texts and fiction.
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