Course Details Language of Instruction English Level of Course Unit Master's Degree Department / Program MA Program in Philosophical, Social, and Historical Fundamentals of Education (Thesis) (30% English) Type of Program Formal Education Type of Course Unit Elective Course Delivery Method Face To Face Objectives of the Course This course proceeds from the understanding that childhood is a constructed phenomenon that varies both from society to society and through time. It is in this sense that the course discusses “childhoods” rather than the idea of a universal childhood. Further, children should be viewed as occupying a separate social category with particular concerns that are intersected by issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and residential fixity. Although the value of the social category of children has historically been considered in sociology this was mainly in terms of children’s utilitarian value through their act of becoming properly socialized adults. The product of correct socialization using this frame should be an adult who has value for adult society. Children, as social agents in their own right, complete with an intrinsic value as persons who can be seen to impact the social world into which they are born is the alternative and underlying understanding of the sociology of childhood. Linked with the study of childhoods and children, is the study of families. In the same way that we can discuss multiple childhoods, we can study changes in the structure of families overtime and study the diversity apparent in the social phenomenon of families through tracing the history, development, and trajectory of family forms in contemporary societies. Changes in society that impact on families involve the changes in the status of women, involving their roles as mothers, carers and workers and changes to the status of men in families, involving their roles as fathers, heads of household, and breadwinners. In what ways are the definitions of families expanding, and what are the possible consequences of this expanding definition for societies? Different theoretical perspectives will be surveyed, and there will be a review of the core texts relevant to the weekly topics Course Content Weekly Course Plan / Readings (Number of Pages Must Be Specified): 1 Introduction A brief discussion of the course contents and requirements pages required none 2 The Study of Childhood in Historical Perspective How have children and childhood been considered in the past? pages 90 3 Families in History in Comparative Perspective What have been the narratives regarding the idea of family pages 80 4 Families in Comparison Comparing the role of family in history and contemporary society pages 90 5 Changing Conceptions of Children and Childhood pages required 100 6 Theories of Child Development and Socialization in Sociology and Psychology Theories of development and socialization that have impacted on ideas of childhood and children pages required 100 7 Children’s Rights and the Changing Status of Children The impact of the UNCRC and the idea of rights for children Pages required 90 8 Midterm Midterm essay no readings this week 9 Children, School, and Daily Life Children in school. Children as social agents pages required 95 10 Divorce, Cohabitation, Remarriage, Blended Families Current family forms in comparison pages required 75 11 Women as Mothers /Motherhood/Men as Fathers The changing role of Women as Mothers and Men as Fathers pages required 75 12 Changing Families, Assisted Reproduction and Genetics The impact of ART and modern families pages required 80 13 Children and Migration/Children and Poverty Children as migrants, Child labor and child poverty. pages required 90 14 Summary and Review Review and discussion Review no pages required Course Methods and Techniques lectures, readings and discussion Prerequisites and co-requisities None Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers Dr. Pranzo Assistants None Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources Library Canvas Page The weekly lecture notes will be available on Canvas during the semester Canvas reading 2 Course Category Social Sciences %100

 





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