SOC205

Students will understand the importance of social interaction for how humans create their social world. b. Because Marriage and Family introduces the centrality of interaction at every point in family life: in socialization, work, sexuality, and parenting; the successful student will be able to see how interaction patterns affect family outcomes.

Students will locate themselves and their community within major social patterns including: culture, social structure, institutions, class, race, ethnicity, and gender. c. Marriage and Family asks and challenges students to find real life examples of social patterns that govern their own lives and their communities: interviewing family members or community members on the changing nature of family life helps students to locate their social origins.

Students will communicate, orally and in writing, a critical understanding of society, interaction, and community- meaning that they will move beyond common place understandings of social action toward a deeper and more nuanced understanding of societys composition. d. Marriage and Family prompts students to ask deep questions about society, community and self: How might inequality of family life manifest itself on the level of the community college?

Students will evaluate original works of sociology, applying theory, methods, and data to the evaluation of these works. e. Because Marriage and Family works with original texts and requires research, students will gain reading and research skills with more advanced pieces of research.

Students will identify sociological forces (culture, social interaction, power, symbolic meaning) working in their lives and in the lives of members of their community. a. Because Marriage and the Family introduces students to sociological forces through discussion, reading, and writing, about the group nature of social life, successful students will recognize how culture, institutions and power shape their life chances and family form.