Strong, Bryan, Christine DeVault and Barbara W. Sayad. The Marriage and Family Experience . Perhaps no aspect of society generates more conversation, more passion, more anger, more angst, more sound and fury than the family. In this course, I urge you to retain your passion about the family, but to take a step back and view the family from a more scientific perspective - that of the sociologist.
Sociology is the scientific study of human beings as social beings - living and working in groups.
But, as sociologists, we will always be concerned with the reciprocal relationship between the family and society. Each exam is worth 100 points. Exam material is drawn from lecture, the textbook and additional reading on the web . I'll average them together at the end of the semester. Pop quizzes Please note that there may also be extra-credit pop quizzes as well.