Week Topic
1 Introduction
to the course
2 Chapter
1: The Meaning of Marriage and Family
3
Chapter 2: Studying Marriage and the Family
4 Chapter 3:
Diifferences: Historical and Contemporary Variations in American Family Life
Start Genograms
5 Chapter
4: Gender and Family
6
Movie: If These Walls Could Talk Part 2
Tuesday Sept 29 Exam 1 Chapters 1-4
7 Chapter
5: Friendship, Love, and Intimacy
8 Chapter 6: Understanding
Sex and Sexuaities
Midterm Oct 12 - Last day to drop with a grade of W
9 Movie: Kinsey
10 Chapter
7: Communication, Power and Conflict
11 Chapter 8: Singlehood,
Pairing, and Cohabitation
Tueday Nov 3 Exam 2 Chapters 5-8
12 Chapter 10: Choosing
whether and How to Have Children
13 Chapter 11: Experiencing
Parenthood
14 Chapter13: Family Violence
and Sexual Abuse
15 Chapter14:
Coming Apart; Separation and Divorce
16 Chapter 15: New
Beginnings: Single-Parent Families,
Remarriages, and Blended Families
Last Class Thursday Dec 3. Final
Exam Dec 8 10:00-12:00 noon
POLICIES
1. Make-up Exams: Missed examinations are at the discretion of the instructor. Students are expected to notify
the instructor as soon as possible and provide appropriate documentation of emergency (an emergency is death of family
member or serious illness requiring hospitalization.)
2. Additional Assignments: Outside assignments are due when assigned and acceptance of late assignments
is at the discretion of the instructor. Students who know in advance they will miss a class should email the assignment
no later than the beginning of class on the due date. In class assignments cannot be made up. Professor is not responsible
for any assignment handed in at a time other than with the rest of the class.
3. Attendance: Attendance affects your grade and is strongly encouraged as group
activities occur in class, receive participation points, and may not be made up. The professor will excuse two absences
and one minor activity-you do not have to see me to receive these. The only other excused absences are for
jury duty, AMC school activities (please see me on what constitutes an acceptable school activity) or an ongoing issue AND
you provide acceptable documentation-you must see me to get these excused.
4. Problems related to the grading policy for this course
or other course management concerns should be first brought to the attention of the professor for the course. However, a resolution of unsettled problems or concerns may be pursued by following the grievance procedures
outlined in the AMC Student Handbook and the Academic Catalog.
5. Students are ultimately responsible for
ensuring that the courses in which they enroll are included in the approved degree plan and program map for their program
of study. Students must periodically
check their enrollment status in this course during the semester. The student is responsible for determining changes, if any,
in enrollment status and taking necessary steps (e.g. pursing re-instatement in this course) following the procedures outlined
in the AMC catalog
6. Cheating and Plagiarism: Cheating is passing off someone else’s work as your own and includes copying
exam answers, using notes or books during examinations, and handing in someone else’s work. Plagiarism is the copying
of materials directly from a source without quotation marks and the appropriate citations. It is claiming another person’s
work, ideas as your own. If there is a suspicion of plagiarism, the students will be asked to submit notes and copies of research
materials (books and articles). Cheating and plagiarism is grounds for failure in this class and dismissal from AMC!
7.
Procedure regarding long-term emergency closure of the college for inclusion on syllabi
(attendance policy):
In the event of an emergency that
forces the college to close for an extended period, students must contact
the instructor of this class within 48 hours using the contact information (e.g., email address, VISTA 8 Access Code or telephone
number) on the syllabus to obtain directions for continuing the course. The
instructor will provide directions for the transmission and submission of course assignments and course assessments, including
due dates.
The student is responsible for submitting valid, accurate contact information, including an active AMC email address
to the instructor by the end of the first week of the course. Students can obtain
an Atlanta
Metropolitan College Student email address
in the Academic Support Center
on the third floor of the Library Building.
If the instructor for the course cannot
be reached within the specified period of time (within 48 hours), the chair of
the division responsible for the course can be reached at the email address posted on
the college’s website.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
BooksBernard, Jesse. (1972). His and Her Marriage. In John J. Macionis
and Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.) Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology,
2nd edition, pp. 250-256. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Dorkenoo, Efua and Scilla Elworthy. (1992). Female Genital Mutilation. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis
(eds.) Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 4th edition, pp. 382-389.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Edgerton, Robert B. (nd) Sick Societies. In James M. Henslin (ed.) Down to Earth Sociology, 8th
edition, pp. 347-354. New York: The Free Press.
Fernea, Elizabeth W. and Robert A. Fernea (nd). A Look behind the Veil. In Garth Massey (ed.) Readings
for Sociology, 3rd edition, pp. 107-113. New York: W.W. Norton.
Friedan, Betty. (1993). My Quest for the Fountain of Age. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.)
Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 4th edition, pp. 251-257. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Gupta, Giri Raj, Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure. (1979). In John J. Macionis and
Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.) Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 2nd
edition, pp. 262-270. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Hostetler, John A. (1980). Amish Society. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lopata, Helena Znaniecka. (1996). Widowhood in Israel. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.)
Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 4th edition, pp. 258-262. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Lorber, Judith. (1994). Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Mead, Margaret (1935). Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V.
Benokraitis (eds.) Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 3rd edition,
pp. 209-214. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Mitford, Jessica. (1992). Fashions in Childbirth. In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday
Life, 2nd Edition, pp. 74-84. Newman, David M. (ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Pipher, Mary. (1994). Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Ballantine.
Reinharz, Shulamit. (1992). Feminist Research Methods. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.)
Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 3rd edition, pp. 22-28. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Richmond-Abbot, Marie. (1992). Masculine and Feminine: Sex Roles over the Life Cycle.
2nd Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Romero, Mary. (1992). Maid in the U.S.A. . In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis
(eds.) Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 4th edition, pp. 277-283.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Sidel, Ruth. (1996). Keeping Women and Children Last: America’s War on the Poor.
New York: Penguin.
Smith, Jane I. (1987). Women and Islam. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.)
Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 4th edition, pp. 340-346. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Stack, Carol B. (1990). "Different Voices, Different Visions: Gender, Culture, and Moral Reasoning."
In Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (eds.), Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Boston:
Beacon Press, pp. 19-27.
Tannen, Deborah. (1990). You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation.
New York: Ballantine Books.
Thorne, Barrie. (1993). Boys and Girls Together…But Mostly Apart. In Sociology: Exploring
the Architecture of Everyday Life, 2nd Edition, pp. 102-113. Newman, David M. (ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine
Forge Press.
Wolf, Naomi (1990). The Beauty Myth. In John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis (eds.) Seeing
Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 3rd edition, pp. 215-221. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice Hall.
Wikan, Unni. (1982). Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press.
Periodicals
Ahn, J. N. & Gilber, N. (1992). Cultural Diversity and sexual abuse prevention. Social
Service Review, 66, 3, 410-427.
Amott, Theresa. (1993). Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U.S. Economy Today. New York:
Monthly Review Press.
Blackwood, Evelyn. (1984). Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case
of Cross-Gender Females. Signs, 10, 27-42.
Jacobs, J. (1993). Gender, race, class and the trend towards early motherhood: A feminist analysis
of teen mothers in contemporary society. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22, 4, 442-462.
Lye, D. N. & Biblarx, P. J. (1993). The effects of attitudes toward family life and gender
roles on marital satisfaction. Journal of Family Issues, 14, 2, 157-188.
Riley, Nancy E. (1997). Gender, Power, and Population Change. Population Bulletin, 52
(May): entire issue.
Rogers, Susan Carol. (1978). Women’s Place: A Critical Review of Anthropological Theory.
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 20, 1, 123-162.
Simon, Rita J., Angela J. Scanlan, and Pamela Madell. (1993). Rabbis and Ministers: Women of
the Book and Cloth. Sociology of Religion, 54, 1, 115-122.
Sociologist’s for Women in Society. (1986). Facts about Pay Equity. (April): entire
issue.
Weitzmaq, Lenore J., Beborah Eifler, Elizabeth Hokkada, and Catherine Ross. (1972). Sex-Role
Socialization in Picture Books for Preschool Children. American Journal of Sociology, 77, 1125-1150.
West, Candance, and Don Zimmerman. (1987). Doing Gender. Gender & Society, 1, 125-151.
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