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Family Dynamics: Mapping Family Relationships
Paper Code:
DHSC 613 (B)
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This course will enable the students to :
- Understand the various forms of family that exist in contempory Indian context.
- Understand the various roles shared by the members in a family and familial relationships.
- Understand family and interacting variables for analyzing individual behavior within family.
12.00
Unit I:
Family dynamics
- Concept of Family Dynamics
- Indian families and Internal Dynamics
- Factors that influence dynamics of the family
- Family interactions, Cohesion, Communication in family
- Family Life Education-Meaning, importance, methods
12.00
Unit II:
Diversity in family forms
- Families in different ecological context
- Traditional forms of family and marriage in India-Nuclear, Joint and Extended-Merits & Demerits
- The life cycle -Features, Importance and Stages
- Alternative forms of family
- Family Developmental tasks
12.00
Unit III:
Role expectations and Demands
- Nature of roles and relationships in Indian Context
- Determinants of roles and relationships
- Traditional and Modern gender roles
- Variations in family structures and role distributions.
12.00
Unit IV:
Influence of Globilisation, Media and Migration on Family Dynamics
- Changes in the structure of Families
- Changes in roles within family setting
- Role confusion, Role Conflict and Role Stress
- Reflection on Behaviours in family
- Modern Indian Families
12.00
Unit V:
Family Programmes and Intervention
- Problems encountered in family
- Family Intervention
- Government policies and programmes for families.
Essential Readings:
- Kuppuswamy,B. (1975) . Social change in India (2nd Edition). New Delhi :Vikas
- Ahuja , R. (1993) . Indian social system, New Delhi :Rawat.
- Duvalh E.: Family development, J.B. Lippincott, New York, 3rd ed. 1967
- Foster: Marriage and Family Relations, Macmillan, 1950
- Hill R. and Waller: The Family, Holt Rinehart and Winstion, New York (Latest ed.)
- Prabhy: Hindar Social Organization, Popular Book Co. 1954
- Williamson, R.C.: Marriage and Family Relations, Collier Macmillan, London, 1969
- Newman and Newman: Infancy and Childhood development and its Context, John Willey, 1978
- Macionis,J.J. (2006). Sociology. Delhi: Pearso n.
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