Revision: 2/12/2014 [still under construction]

Supplemental readings are (generally empirical) journal articles that are either available through direct links (if you are off campus you will need a proxy server to access online journals), or I will post the articles to Coursework. If you find that a link to an article doesn’t work, find an alternate link and post that link to Coursework.

Note that the presenting student may choose a different supplementary reading.

The supplementary readings will be changed and adjusted as the quarter progresses.

		Discussants and Presenters:
Week 1:
Mar 31	class orientation
Week 2:
Apr 7	First half of the class: Required text: Goldthorpe, J.E. 1987. Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. (read the whole book)	Discussant:
	Second half of the class: Supplementary readings on the History of the Family. Lam, David. 2011. How the World Survived the Population Bomb. Demography 48: 1231-1262 Abrams, Philip. 1972. "The Sense of the Past and the Origins of Sociology." Past and Present:18-32. Ruggles, Steven. 1994. "The Transformation of the American Family Structure." American Historical Review 99:103-128.	Discussant:
Week 3:
Apr 14	First half of the class: Required text: Andrew Cherlin’s Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage (read the whole book)	Discussant:
	Second half of the class: Supplementary readings On Race and Marriage and Single Parenthood Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. 1965. “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” US Government Printing Office.	Discussant:
Week 4:
Apr 21	First half of the class: Required text: Waite and Gallagher’s The Case for Marriage (read the whole book)	Discussant:
	Second half of the class: Supplementary readings TBA Becker, Gary. 1973. “A Theory of Marriage, Part 1.” Journal of Political Economy 81: (4) 813-846 Becker, Gary.; 1974. “A Theory of Marriage, Part II.” Journal of Political Economy 82(2): S11-S26.	Discussant:
Week 5:
Apr 28	First half of the class: Required text: Rosenfeld’s The Age of Independence (read the whole book)	Discussant:
	Second half of the class: Supplementary readings Rosenfeld, Michael J. 2008. "Racial, Educational, and Religious Endogamy in Comparative Historical Perspective." Social Forces 87:1-32.
Week 6:
May 5	First half of the class: Required text: Wallerstein and Blakeslee’s Second Chances (chapters 1-7, 15-18, and the appendix).	Discussant:
	Second half of the class: The effects of Family Structure and Divorce on Children Rosenfeld, Michael J. 2010. "Nontraditional Families and Childhood Progress Through School." Demography 47:755-775. Cherlin, Andrew J., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., et al. 1991. "Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States." Science 252:1386-1389. Amato, Paul R., and Jacob Cheadle. 2005. "The Long Reach of Divorce: Divorce and Child Well-Being Across Three Generations." Journal of Marriage and the Family 67:191-206. On the methodology of studies of divorce and effect on children: Cherlin, Andrew J. 1999. "Going to Extremes: Family Structure, Children's Well-Being, and Social Science." Demography 36:421-428.	Discussant:
Week 7:
May 12	First half of the class: Student research presentations
	Second half of the class: Required text: Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (read chapters 1-6 and ch 14)	Presenters:
Week 8:
May 19	First half of the class: Required text: Hochshild and Machung’s The Second Shift (ch 1-6, 16 and 17)	Discussant:
	Second half of class: Presentation by Rosenfeld “Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary”
Week 9:
May 26	First half of the class: Student Presentations	Presenters:
	Second half of the class: (left over from a prior week) Amato, Paul R., and Jacob Cheadle. 2005. "The Long Reach of Divorce: Divorce and Child Well-Being Across Three Generations." Journal of Marriage and the Family 67:191-206. And also, possibly: Rosenfeld on “Couple Longevity and Formal Unions in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage”	Discussant:
Week 10:
June 2	Readings and assignments TBA Final papers due by email to Rosenfeld on Monday, June 4