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Week 1: This week you are introduced to thinking sociologically more generally as well as thinking sociologically about the family. Chapter two then introduces you to the ways in which the family structure in the United States has changed over time. Building from the first chapter, you will learn more about what it means to understand the family sociologically and historically.    

Readings 

Mills, C. Wright. 1959. “The Promise.” The Sociological Imagination. New York: 

Oxford University Press. https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02… 

Course Text: Chapter 1–A Sociology of the Family 

Course Text: Chapter 2–The Family in History 

Merritt, J. (2013, September 10). From ‘Full House’ to ‘Modern Family’: Ten shows that 

forced us to reimagine the American family.Religion News Service. Retrieved from https://www.religionnews.com/2013/09/10/from-full-…. 

Reeves, R. V., & Venator, J. (2014, February 10). Opposites don’t attract: Assortative 

mating and social mobility. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-mem….This article discusses the results of decreased marriage rates between people of differing socioeconomic status since 1960. The result is a clustering of men and women in social strata. For couples in the lowest income strata, even dual-wage earners have very little income, so there are fewer resources available to support the family.  

Videos  

The Sociological Imagination. 2015. Sociology Live!  

The Family is not an isolated entity https://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.8/?p=/college/… 

Decline in birthrates, increase in women workers 

https://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.8/?p=/college/soc/family/&f=family-in-history&ft=mp4&cdn=1&cc=1