ASOA05066U Families in Crisis – the changing balance of power between men and women NB The course is closed for further registration
BA and MA
MSc Curriculum 2005 and BA Curriculun 2005
Specialiseringslinje: Kultursociologi
This innovative course focuses on the major transformations in contemporary family relationships and parenting since the mid-twentieth century. First we move beyond rhetorical statements about the past from the viewpoint of the present, to compare family life and parenting practices across time and in different state societies. Second, we explore relationships between paid work and family life, integrating different sociological perspectives on changing femininities and masculinities. Third, we critically examine debates about the transformation of intimacy by focusing on the lust balance, the balance between the longing for sexual gratification and the longing for enduring intimacy. Fourth, we discuss intergenerational relations by looking at why young children have tended be excluded from debates about changes in family structure. Finally we propose a synthesis that is long-term, relational and comparative, based on changes in the balance of power between men and women.
Students will be able to explain and reintegrate sociological debates about families, reclaiming the family as a central organising concept that addresses personal, public and political concerns.
R. Edwards and V. Gillies (2012) Farewell to family? Notes on an argument for retaining the concept Families, Relationships and Societies, 1, 1: 63–9
A. Giddens, (1992) The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, Cambridge: Polity Pres
J. Brannen (2004) Childhoods Across the Generations: Stories from women in four-generation English families, Childhood vol. 11, 4: 409-428
R. Simpson, J. Hughes, N. Slutskaya and M. Balta, Work, Employment and Society, published online 7 March 2014, pp.1-17
J. R. McCarthy (2012) The powerful relational language of ‘family’: togetherness, belonging and personhood,
The Sociological Review, 60, 1: 68-90
N. Elias (2009), The changing balance of power between the sexes – a process sociological study: the example of the Ancient Roman state, in Essays III: On Sociology and the Humanities,Collected Works, vol. 16, Dublin: UCD: pp.240-265
- Category
- Hours
- Exam Preparation
- 61,25
- Lectures
- 15
- Preparation
- 61,25
- Total
- 137,50
Registration deadline for courses is June 1 for Autumn semester
and November 1 for Spring semester. Registration deadline for
Summer school is June 1.
When registered you will be signed up for exam. International
exchange students must sign up by filling in an application
form:
course registration. Meritstuderende:
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- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentIndividual/group. See further details in the curriculum
- Exam registration requirements
Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2005 or BA Curriculum to take this exam.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASOA05066U
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Level
- BachelorFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- Teaching, 12:00 - 15:00,
Monday October 5
Tuesday October 6
Wednesday October 7
Thursday October 8
Friday Ocotber 9 - Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- Se skema
- Continuing and further education
- Price
- Study board
- Department of Sociology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Sociology
Course responsibles
- Tine Skou Sørensen (3-84837b5083717d763e7b853e747b)
Lecturers
Norman Gabriel