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Course Description: Family and Society
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Course Description: Family and Society

Family and Society

50-1512

Family, the basic unit of society, is studied from a social, economic, psychological, and multicultural framework. Family is examined as a cultural construction, and interactive system, and organization, and a social institution. Topics include family patterns in various cultures, relationships within the family, family influences on personality development, marital roles, mate selection, parent-child relations, family dissolution, and reorganization.

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