Sociology 4086          FAMILY AND SOCIETY        Spring 1993

Professor:  Martha E. Gimenez
Office:   Hunter 206
Phone: 303-492-6427 (department)  303-492-7080  (office)

Course Description:   Studies the changing relationship between
the family and the economic structure, historically and
sociologically.  Examines households that differ from the nuclear
family, taking into account the political, social, ideological,
demographic, and economic determinants of family formation.

Required Readings:

BOOKS:

Lillian B. Rubin,  WORLDS OF PAIN (1991 edition)

Ruth Sidel, WOMEN AND CHILDREN LAST (revised edition)

Arlie Hochschild, THE SECOND SHIFT

Barbara Ehrenreich, THE HEARTS OF MEN

BOOKLETS:

Dennis A. Ahlburg and Carol J. DeVita, NEW REALITIES OF THE
AMERICAN FAMILY. Population Bulletin, Vol 47, No. 2, August 1992.

ARTICLES:

This articles are required reading.  They are placed on reserve
at Norlin and will be available for purchase as a package in Coin
Copies (Norlin, second floor), as soon as they receive
authorization. 

Ira L. Reiss,  "The Universality of the Family:  A Conceptual
Analysis."  Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1965, 27.

William J. Goode, "The Theoretical Importance of Love."  American
Sociological Review, 1959, 24.

Sydney M. Greenfield, "Love and Marriage in Modern America:  A
Functional Analysis."  The Sociological Quarterly, 1965, 6.

Margaret Benston, "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation."
Monthly Review, 1969

Martha E. Gimenez, "The Dialectics of Waged and Unwaged Labor: 
Waged Work, Domestic labor and Household Survival in the United
States," in Jane Collins and M. E. Gimenez, eds., WORK WITHOUT
WAGES. Domestic Labor and Self-Employment under Capitalism. Suny
University press, 1990.

____________,  "The Black Family:  Vanishing or Unattainable?" 
Humanity and Society, 1987, 11.

____________,  "Feminism, Pronatalism, and Motherhood," in
Joyce Trebilcot, ed., MOTHERING. Essays in Feminist Theory. Rowan
and Allanheld, 1984.

Benjamin Barber, "Feminism, Marriage, and the Family."

Linda Gordon, "The Functions of the Family."