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Wed. 9/5
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Overview |
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Mon 9/10
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What is "Family"? Family Decline vs. Family Change |
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Popenoe, David. 1993. "American Family Decline, 1960-1990: A Review and Appraisal."Journal of Marriage and Family 55, Aug: 527-542. |
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Wed 9/12
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Family Decline vs. Family Change |
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Coontz, Stephanie 1992. "Introduction" and "The
Way We Wish We Were." The Way We Never Were: American Families and
the Nostalgia Trap Pp. 1-22. |
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Stacey, Judith. 1996. Chapter 2, "The Family is Dead, Long
Live Our Families," (pp. 38-51) in In the Name of the Family: Rethinking
Family Values in the Postmodern Age. Beacon Press. Also
on-line:
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AUM9488 |
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GRADUATE STUDENTS: |
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(undergrad CP)
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Stacey, Judith. 1993. "Good Riddance to "The Family": A Response
to David Popenoe." Journal of Marriage and Family 55, Aug: 545-547. |
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(undergrad CP)
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Cowan, Philip. 1993. "The Sky Is Falling, But Popenoe�s Analysis
Won�t Help Us Do Anything About It." Journal of Marriage and the Family
55, Aug: 548-552. |
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(grad CP)
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Bengtson, Vern. 2001. "Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing
Importance of Multigenerational Bonds." JMF 63: 1-16. |
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Mon 9/17
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What Do American Families Look Like and Why? |
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McLanahan Sara and Lynne Casper. 1995. “Growing Diversity
and Inequality in the American Family.” In R. Farley (ed.) State
of the Union in the 1990s. NY: Russell Sage. Cherlin, Andrew. Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage chapter 2 Mindel, Habenstein, & Wright. 1998. Ethnic Families in America. Chapter 9, “The Puerto Rican Family,” Chapter 7, “The Mexican-American Family,” Chapter 12 “The Chinese-American Family,” Chapter 14, “The Asian Indian-American Family” |
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Wed 9/19
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Trends and Explanations, Racial/Ethnic Differences |
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Cherlin, Andrew. Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, chapter
4 Stevenson, Brenda. “Black Family Structure in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia: Amending the Revisionist Perspective.” Chapter 2 in Tucker & Mitchell-Kernan (eds.) The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans (pp. 27-57) |
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(grad CP)
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Koball, H. 1998. “Have African American Men Become Less
Committed to Marriage? Explaining the Twentieth Century Racial Cross-Over
in Men’s Marriage Timing.” Demography, 35: 251-258. |
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Mon 9/24
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Theoretical Frameworks |
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Chapter 3, “The Exchange Framework,” in Family
Theories, an Introduction (pp. 59-85) |
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Chapter 7, “The Conflict Framework,” in Family
Theories, an Introduction (pp. 179-210) |
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Wed 9/26
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Feminist Perspectives on the Family |
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Thorne, Barrie. 1992. “Feminism and the Family: Two Decades
of Thought.” In Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions,
2nd edition. Edited by Barrie Thorne and Marilyn Yalom. Boston: Northeastern
University Press. |
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Baca Zinn, M. 1999. “Family, Feminism & Race in America.” Gender & Society 4,1: 68-82. |
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Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. “Shifting the Center: Race,
Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood.” Chapter 22 (pp. 291-310)
in Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families, edited
by Susan J. Ferguson. |
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Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling. 1998. “Family, Economy and the State: A Legacy of Struggle for Chinese American Women.” Chapter 8 in Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families, edited by Susan J. Ferguson (pp 93-114). |
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Stacey, Judith. 1992. Chapter 5, “Backward toward the
Postmodern Family: Reflections on Gender, Kinship and Class in the Silicon
Valley,” (p 91-112) in Rethinking The Family, edited by Barrie
Thorne and Marilyn Yalom. |
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Mon 10/1
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Household Division of Labor |
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Brines, Julie. 1994. “Economic Dependency, Gender, and
the Division of Labor at Home.” American Journal of Sociology
100, 3, Nov: 652-688. Can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.jstor.org/ |
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Patterson, Charlotte. Family Relationships of Lesbians and
Gay Men. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62: 1052-1069 |
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Pesquera, Beatrice. 1993. "In the Beginning He Couldn�t Even
Lift A Spoon: The Division of Household Labor," (pp. 181-198) in Building
With Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies, edited by A. de la
Torre & B. M . Pesquera. Berkeley: U Cal Press |
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Orbuch & Eyster. 1997. "Division of Household Labor Among
Black Couples and White Couples." Social Forces 76: 301-33 |
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Wed 10/3
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Household Division of Labor, Children’s Gender Roles |
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Golombok & Tasker. 1996. "Do Parents Influence the Sexual
Orientation of their Children? Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Lesbian
Families" Developmental Psychology 32: 3-11 |
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Stacey, Judith and Timothy J. Biblarz. 2001. "(How) Does the
Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?" American Sociological Review 66,
April: 159-183. |
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Mon 10/8
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Responsible Fathering? |
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Doherty, William J., E. Kouneski, & M. Erickson. 1998. "Responsible
Fathering: An Overview and Conceptual Framework." Journal of Marriage
and Family 60: 277-292. |
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Walker, Alexis & L. McGraw. 2000. “Who is Responsible
for Responsible Fathering?” Journal of Marriage and Family 62: 563-569. |
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Wed 10/10
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Non-Custodial Fathers vs. Fatherhood in Intact Families |
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Furstenberg, Frank. “Good Dads-Bad Dads: Two Faces of
Fatherhood. (pp. 193-218) in The Changing American Family and Public
Policy, edited by A. Cherlin. |
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Harris, Kathleen, Frank Furstenberg, and Jeremy Marmer. 1998.
“Paternal Involvement with Adolescents in Intact Families: The Influence
of Fathers over the Life Course.” Demography 35, 2: 201-216 |
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Mon 10/15
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Changes in American Families |
| Gerson, No Man�s Land, Chapters 1, skim 2-3, read 4-6 |
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Wed 10/17
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Guest Lecturer: Professor Kathleen Gerson, New York University |
| Gerson, No Man�s Land, Chapters 7-9 |
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Mon 10/22
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Changes in American Families |
| Hochschild, The Time Bind Chapters 1-6, 8, 14, 15 |
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Wed 10/24
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Review |
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Take-Home Midterm Distributed |
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Mon 10/29
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No Class - midterm |
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Wed 10/31
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Parental Control and Parenting Style |
| Midterm due 6pm | |
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Diana. 1996. "The discipline controversy revisited." Family
Relations: Journal of Applied Family & Child Studies. 45(4): 405-414. |
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Ruth. 1994. "Beyond Parental Control and Authoritarian Parenting
Style: Understanding Chinese Parenting through the Cultural Notion of Training."
Child Development 65: 1111-1119. |
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Mon 11/5
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No Class – University Holiday |
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Wed 11/7
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Families in Specific Contexts |
| Bacon, Jean Leslie. 1996. Life Lines: Community, Family
and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants. NY: Oxford. 1, 2, 6 |
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Mon 11/12
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Families in Specific Contexts |
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Bacon, 11, 12 |
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Wed 11/13
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Families in Specific Contexts, con’t. |
| Paper Assigned, Due 11/28 | |
| Pattillo 4, 5, conclusion Harvey, David. Potter Addition: Poverty, Family and Kinship in a Heartland Community. Read Intro, Chapters 1, 3, 7 |
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Mon 11/19
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Families in Specific Contexts |
| Harvey, Chapters 8, 11, 12, 13 |
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Wed 11/21
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No Lecture (Thanksgiving Holiday) |
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Mon 11/26
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Sociological Perspectives on Child and Family Policy |
| Readings distributed in class |
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Wed 11/28
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Sociological Perspectives on Child and Family Policy |
| Paper Due, 6pm |
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Mon 12/3
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Domestic Violence and Family Violence |
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(CP)
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Gelles, Richard. 1997. “Introduction,” in Intimate
Violence in Families |
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Kurz, Demie. Chapter 18, “Social Science Perspectives
on Wife Abuse.” Pp. 252-269 in Bart, Pauline and Eileen Geil Moran
(eds). 1993. Violence Against Women: The Bloody Footprints. Newbury
Park: Sage. |
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Wed 12/5
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Domestic Violence and Family Violence, con’t. |
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Johnson, Michael P. 1995. Patriarchal Terrorism and Common
Couple Violence: Two Forms of Violence Against Women. Journal of Marriage
and the Family 57, 283-294. |
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Mon 12/10
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In-Class Final Quiz |