Sociology of the family: global advances and challenges

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/28/2008

Category :

Science & technology

Sub category :

Biology

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Summary :

Introduction.
Rapid social and economic change: impact on the opportunities for families and scholars.
1. Issues.
2. Historical views.
3. Advances and challenges.
Mobility and stability: shaping individual, family, ethnic and national identities
1. Issues.
2. Historical views.
3. Advances and challenges.
Political uses and misuses of family studies and concepts.
1. Issues.
2. Historical views.
3. Challenges and advances.
Conclusion.

Abstract

sociology of the family as a field of research, education and action faces many challenges and critics, both within academic institutions and in the larger society. This paper focuses on recent developments in international family sociology in the context of the discipline of sociology, and its connections to interdisciplinary family studies. Some attention is given to the processes of communication, including publications, collaboration, and innovation. International family sociology is connected to historical and current sociological trends and has been affected by the rise of other specializations in sociology. The study of family is one of the oldest and most active fields in sociology. A number of comprehensive assessments of the family field were made at the end of the decade of the 80s and beginning of the 90s. Their review of new trends focused on changing structures and relationships as a function of altered costs and benefits, drawing upon the new paradigms in social history, anthropology, and the women's movement to examine several family domains in the field: technology and family patterns, divorce and remarriage, untraditional dyadic relationships, and parents and children's effects on each other. The growth of other sources of theoretical and methodological reviews in family studies allowed condensing those topics and adding power, violence, divorce, work, and sex roles as chapters.