Subject 7. Sociology of a family and marriage

Occupation purpose: studying of a family as social institute and as social group; acquaintance to various forms of marriage; family tipologization; analysis of structure of a family and intra family communications; identification of the main historical stages of evolution of a family; comparative analysis of models of a family.

Basic concepts: family, marriage, structure of a family, function of a family, life cycle of a family, stability of a family, divorce, matrimonial family, illegitimate family.

Plan:

1. Features of a family as social institute and small group.

2. Structure of a family and marriage, function of a family.

3. The main tendencies in development of the family and marriage relations of modern society.

Questions for reflection, self-examination and repetition:

1. What is the family? Open this phenomenon from the different parties.

2. Than two concepts differ: family as social institute and family as small group.

3. How duties of parents and children in your family are distributed? Describe a situation.

4. Than differ a nuclear and multigeneration family?

5. What reasons of divorce and its consequence for the child? Whether you had to face a divorce problem?

6. Why families break up? Give concrete examples.

7. Why there are family conflicts and in what their essence? Analyse the conflicts in the family. How they arise and how are resolved?

Tasks and exercises:

1. Describe the main stages of premarital behavior. Try to make the scenario of the first acquaintance.

2. Who in your family the leader – mother or the father? Give the analysis of a problem.

3. Think and answer why to live in marriage and to live together – not same?

4. Performance of duties by the husband and wife can take the following forms:

the husband carries out only the, and the wife – the duties,

the husband doesn't carry out the duties, and the wife carries out the,

the husband carries out the duties, and the wife isn't present,

the husband carries out female duties, and the wife the man's.

What will occur in each of these situations – scandal, divorce, the conflict, harmony? Analyse situations.

5. Parents aren't tired to claim that they leave to the south only for the sake of children. But here they with huge work reached a place, got a job in boarding house, got acquainted with neighbors and places of entertainments. The following indispensable step – they forget about children at all. Adults have a rest, and here children... Shout at them, all forbid them, in all them limit, on them break, them punish. It seems, what exactly they – the main hindrance to rest of parents. Why such occurs? Give the sociological and psychological analysis.

6. Influence of parents on children well-known. However there is also the return process. Research of the American psychologists showed that fathers of sons are more courageous, than fathers of daughters. How you think, and what happens to mothers?

7. Prove or disprove the following statements:

Motives of marriage in many respects define character of future matrimony.

Often newlyweds transfer stereotypes of the parents to a family.

In the relations with the spouse the wife listens to councils of parents, than the husband more often.

marry Most of brides and grooms of rural areas partners from the village.

the Female townswoman's o marry natives of the village more often, than male citizens marry brides from the village.

7. What is the life cycle of a family and of what it consists?

9. And what stage of life cycle is endured by your family? Try to analyse a situation.

10. Analyse life cycle of a parental family and make dynamics of change of roles in it.

11. Think, and whether remained, let in a modified form, group marriage today? Whether it is possible to identify two concepts: group marriage and group sex? Reflect over these problems?

12. Think over a problem of separate accommodation of spouses. Seamen for half a year go to swimming, and wives remain ashore. Work of representatives of many professions is connected with continuous business trips. Which? To what consequences can lead separations of spouses? Whether it is possible to refer these facts to category of the marriage inherent in primitive tribes?

13. Names of marriages are given below. Glance in special literature, dictionaries, encyclopedias and try to give to each concept at least short definition: traditional monogamy; childless marriage; lonely motherhood; communes; cohabitation (two live together without the conclusion of the marriage contract); secondary marriage (after divorce); a svinging and group sex (married or unmarried couples unite and change partners); an expanded family (voluntary united marriage couples living together though they aren't relatives by birth); group marriage; marriage (close to bigamy,); open marriage.

15. The American sociologists Э.Берджесс and H. Locke in the book "Family — from Institute to the Commonwealth" which appeared in 1945 claimed that in structure and in functioning of a modern family there were essential changes. "In the past the major factors uniting a family were the external, formal, such as law, customs, customs, public opinion, traditions and authority of the head of the family, strict discipline and developed rituals. Now there is in a condition of formation a new form of a family – association, its unity depends on pressure of society less, and is more increasing from the interpersonal relations, as mutual attachment, mutual understanding and association of her members". On the basis of this statement authors came to conclusion that the family is gradually transformed from social institute to association. Whether it is possible to agree with similar opinion?

Express the relation to this approach. Reason the answer.

Definitions:

1) the matrimonial union between the same-gender partner and several partners of another;

2) the marriage characterized by formation of the matrimonial union only between representatives of one class, social group or a caste;

3) marriage between one woman and several men;

4) the community of people based on marriage, consanguinity or adoption, assuming a community of life and responsibility for socialization of children;

5) a family in which inheritance of a surname, property and a social status is carried out on the fatherly line.

6) the family which is characterized by cohabitation of the husband with the wife's family;

7) the matrimonial union between one man and one woman;

8) a family in which spouses occupy socially non-uniform situation;

9) the marriage concluded between representatives of various groups and classes;

10) set of the relations between spouses regulated by set of official norms;

11) marriage between one man and several women;

12) a family in which the married couple lives together with a family of the husband or in the neighbourhood with it;

13) a family in which the leading role is played by wife/mother;

14) the family consisting of both parents and their children;

15) a family in which spouses have the identical rights and duties are distributed evenly;

16) a family in which the leading role is played by the husband/father;

17) a family in which spouses occupy socially uniform situation;

18) a family in which inheritance of a surname, property and a social status is carried out in the area of mother.

Literature:

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3. Кравченко А.И. Социология. Учебник для вузов. М., 2008.

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