FAMILY DYNAMICS

Paper Code: 
HHD 122
Credits: 
03
Contact Hours: 
3.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
Course Objectives:
This course will enable the students to:
1. Understand the goals, significance and functions of marriage
2. To understand the concept of family , parenthood and parent child relationship
3. Analyze family life cycle.
4. Evaluate problems related to family and women.
5. Remember social structure.
 

Course Outcomes (CO’s):

Course

Learning Outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and Teaching Strategies

Assignment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

HHD 122

Family Dynamics

Student will be able to –

 

COHD5: Discuss the concept of  family dynamics and Identify the macro level changes and its impact on Indian family.

 

COHD6: Describe  the types of Kinship  and society.

 

COHD7: Develop the familiarity with the marriage and its related issues and adjustments.

 

COHD8: Construct the alternate forms of family and identify the reasons and characteristics for their formation

COHD9: Discuss the status , issues and interventions related to women.

 

 

Approaches in Teaching:  Interactive Lectures,  Reading assignments, Power Point Presentation,

 

 

Learning activities for the Students:

Relevant books, papers – students read, collate and make presentations on selected theme

Quiz. PPT, Group projects, assignments, CA test , Semester End Examination.

 

9.00
Unit I: 
FAMILY
  • Definition of family from different perspectives. 
  • Approaches to family study-
  • Development approach 
  • iInteractional approach 
  • institutional approach 
  • Structural functional approach 
  • Systems approach 
  • Changing structural and functional aspects of Indian family.
  • Family life cycle and their developmental task
 
9.00
Unit II: 
PERSONALITY AND SOCIETY
  •  Kinship: Types of Kinship, degree of kinship, range of a kinship system, kinship descent, kinship usages, kinship and their influence on the child. 
  • iSociety: Structure- rural & urban, modern society and its influence on the family.
  • Personality and society - Inter-relation, cultural influences on human personality and social behavior1
  • Family life education
 
9.00
Unit III: 
MARRIAGE
  • Marriage -Concept, need, importance 
  • Readiness for marriage- physiological, social, psychological, economical etc.
  • Adjustments in marriage- sexual, economical, in- laws, parenthood and problems in marriage desertion, separation, divorce, widowhood and remarriage.
  • Legal aspects of marriage- Legislation pertaining to marriage, property, Hindu-marriage act, Hindu succession act, Anti dowry  act. 
  • Marital  and pre-marital counseling  
9.00
Unit IV: 
CHANGING TRENDS
  • Effect of modernization on marriage. 
  • Employment of women and family conflict& adjustment 
  • Generation Gap and adjustment
  • Alternatives to marriage – co-living, living single, child marriage, group marriage, lesbianism and gay culture
 
9.00
Unit V: 
ISSUES AND INTERVENTIONS
  • Status of women- Demographic, political, social, educational, economic, legal.
  • Factors influencing status, roles and responsibilities of men and women.
  • Problems of women- Dowry, suicide, health, women and mass media, sexual exploitation, women criminals,  prostitution, eve teasing , rape.
  • Woman and the Law: Legislation pertaining to marriage, property, Hindu-marriage act, Hindu succession act, Anti dowry  act.
  • Intervention and relief programs- family violence, battered women, child maltreatment, sexual abuse, separation and divorce, mother employed outside.

 

References: 
• Duvall, E.M. Family, The Macmillon Company, New York 1961.
• Lanois, F.R. and Landis, M.O. Personala adjustments in Marriage and family living, Prentice Hall Inc., New York 1955.
• Renkel, F. The Family in perspective. Appleton Contury, Crofts, Inc. New Delhi, 1960.
• Rao. C.N.S.Introduction to Sociology. Vol. 1. S. Chand & Company (pvt.) Ltd.
• Kapur,S.Changing status of working women in India,Vikas1974.
• Mandelbaum,D.G.,Society in India,Popular Prakashan,1972.
• Nye,I and Berardo,the family its structure and interaction.Macmillan,1973.
• Jack,N.Modernsociety,Georage Allen and union,1981.
• Rai,B.C.,SocialPsychology,Prakashan Kendra,1982.
• Nye and Berarde,Emerging conceptual framework in Family Analysis.
• KapadiaK.M.Mirrage& Family in India Madras,Oxford University Press,1955.
Newman and Newman: Infancy and Childhood development and its Context, John Willey, 1978
 
Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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