FAMILY DYNAMICS (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24DHSC511B
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

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: 

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Learning and teaching strategies

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24DHSC511B

FAMILY DYNAMICS (Theory)

CO133: Examine the approaches, and families across different cultures and macro-level changes in Indian families, family cycle and tasks.

CO134: Explain the role of kinship and society on personality development and the impact of family life education on families.

C0135: Determine the concept, need, importance, readiness to marriage, adjustments, and problems of marriage.

CO136: Compare the effects of modernization, employment, adjustment, Generation with alternatives of marriage.

CO137: Analyse the factors, status, problems, laws, and interventions related to women.

CO138: Contribute effectively in course specific interaction

Approaches in teaching:InteractiveLectures,Reading Assignments, PowerPointPresentation,

Learning activities for the Students:

Relevant books,papers

– students read, collate and make presentations on selected theme

Quiz. PPT,Group Projects, assignments

CA test ,SemesterEndExamination.

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Family
  • Definition of family from different perspectives.
  • Families across different cultures
  • Approaches to family study-
    • Development approach
    • Interactional approach
    • Institutional approach
    • Structural functional approach
    • Systems approach
  • Changing structural and functional aspects of Indian family.
  • Family lifecycle and their developmental task
12.00
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.
  • Society: Structure-rural urban, modern society and its influence on the family.
  • Personality and society - Inter-relation, cultural influences on human personality and social behavior
  • Family life education.
12.00
Unit III: 
Marriage
  • Marriage-Concept, need,Importance
  • Readiness for marriage-physiological, social, psychological, economical etc.
  • Adjustments in marriage-sexual, economical, in-laws, parenthood
  • Problems in marriage-desertion, separation, divorce, widowhood and remarriage.
  • Marital and premaritalcounseling

 

12.00
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

12.00
Unit V: 
Issues & 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,Hindusuccessionact, Antidowry act.
  • Intervention and relief programs- family violence, battered women, child maltreatment, sexual abuse, separation and divorce, mother employed outside.
Essential Readings: 
  • Patel,T.(2002). (Ed.).TheFamilyinIndia:StructureandPractice.NewDelhi:Sage.
  • Georgas, J., Berry, J. W., van de Vijver, F. J. R., Kağitçibaşi, Ç., & Poortinga, Y. H.(Eds.). (2006). Families across cultures: A 30-nation psychological study. CambridgeUniversityPress.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489822

 

References: 
  • Macionis,J.J.(2006).Sociology.Delhi:Pearson.
  • Sonawat, R. (2001). Understanding Families in India: A Reflection of Societal Changes.Unit for Family Studies, TISS (1991). Research on familieswith.problems in India: Issuesandimplications (Vol.I).Bombay TISS
  • ResearchonfamilieswithproblemsinIndia.Bombay.TISS.5.Shrivastava.N.(Ed).2010
  • Strong B., DeVault.C& Cohen T.F. 2011. The Marriage and Family Experience- Intimate Relationship sina Changing Society (11thEd)Roopnarine,J.L.(2000).Kakar'spsychoanalyticinterpretationofIndianchildhood: The need to emphasize the father and multiple caregivers in thesocializationequation.International JournalofGroupTensions, 29(3-4),
  • Selin,H.(2014).Parentingacrosscultures:Childrearing,motherhoodandfatherhoodinnon-westerncultures.Springer,Dordrecht.
  • Sharma,D.(2000).InfancyandchildhoodinIndia:Acriticalreview.InternationalJournalofGroupTensions,29 (3-4), 219-251.
Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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