Lebenslauf und soziale Ungleichheit: Familiendemographie

Dozent/in:

Gordey Yastrebov

Angaben:

Seminar, 2,00 SWS, ECTS: 5, Englischsprachiges Seminar

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, F21/03.48
vom 15.10.2018 bis zum 9.2.2019

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Each session will include a combination of lecture by the lecturer, student presentations and a general discussion. Throughout the course each student is expected to deliver at least two presentations (one of which could be substituted by a written assignment depending on the overall number of participants). The primary working language for this seminar is English, although written assignments (if any) could be delivered in German.

Inhalt:

The course will introduce students to family demography – a discipline which is broadly concerned with the study of family structures, their internal dynamics and historical evolution. The list of topics to be covered in the course includes (but is not limited to) family and household composition; partnering and union dynamics; childbearing and parenting practices; distribution of within-family gender roles; kinship networks and intergenerational ties. We will also talk about the changing meaning of family, its forms, types and dynamics in the context of wider social change, including their differences in the context of cross-national and cross-cultural variety. The goal of the course is to empower students with state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical knowledge bringing together relevant contributions from sociology, economics and demography. Such knowledge should allow them better appreciate the diversity of family forms and meanings, critically reflect on their personal and other people’s experiences, as well as skillfully engage in private and public debates regarding the above mentioned issues.

Lebenslauf und soziale Ungleichheit: Soziologie des Alterns

Dozent/in:

Gordey Yastrebov

Angaben:

Seminar, 2,00 SWS, ECTS: 5, Englischsprachiges Seminar

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, F21/03.48
vom 15.10.2018 bis zum 9.2.2019

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Each session will include a combination of lecture by the lecturer, student presentations and a general discussion. Throughout the course each student is expected to deliver at least two presentations (one of which could be substituted by a written assignment depending on the overall number of participants). The primary working language for this seminar is English, although written assignments (if any) could be delivered in German.

Inhalt:

The course will cast a sociological perspective on the process of aging, or, literally, the process of growing old. In this course, we will explore the meanings and experiences of being ‘old’, how these differ across societies and cultures, and how these may have changed over time as our societies underwent social change. We will also touch upon many different issues related to aging, such as retirement and post-retirement employment behavior, consumption practices and social activity of the elderly, their economic, physical and psychological well-being, demographic behavior, grandparenting and intergenerational ties, etc. Finally, we will discuss how aging transforms our societies, and what challenges and opportunities it brings. The goal of the course is to empower students with state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical knowledge regarding the process of aging. Such knowledge should allow them to better appreciate the diversity of experiences associated with aging, critically evaluate those experiences and skillfully engage in relevant debates both in private and in public.