Sociology of Family

Harvard FAS

This course approaches families as social arrangements shaped by broader forces and as arenas in which we make choices about our lives. As such, we will consider how family forms and relationships reflect wider systems of gender, race, class, sexuality, and state policy, as well as how they provide sites of resistance to dominant social norms. We will focus on contemporary studies of key aspects of family, such as: partnering and marriage, diversity of family forms and chosen family,…