Family Diversity in America

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Sociology 4624 is an advanced seminar that engages topics central to family diversity and inequality in the United States. We will read and discuss a series of books that take a sociological or social scientific approach to examining partnering and dissolution, childbearing and childrearing, family structure, work-family balance, and other topics relevant to contemporary American families. Our seminar discussions will be structured around student responses to the assigned books, and in our conversations, we will consider both the substantive contributions of the books to our understanding of family diversity and the research methods the authors used to arrive at their conclusions.