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Marriage, Intimate Relationships and Families
This introductory level course provides an overview of core concepts and theories which contribute to our understanding of intimate relationships and families. The text provides a structure and sequence of issues for the course, but the students will contribute much of the content. A heutagogical instructional design allows students in the course to provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence.
- Author
- Ron Hammond, Paul Cheney, and Bill Pelz
- Publisher
- LibreTexts
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 17 sections
- 01: Chapters
- 1.01: Intimate Relationships and Families
- 1.02: Family Theories
- 1.03: The Sociological Study Of The Family
- 1.04: Studying Relationships and Families
- 1.05: Family Strengths
- 1.06: Dating and Partner Selection
- 1.07: Sex and Gender
- 1.08: Sexuality
- 1.09: Couples- Married or Not
- 1.10: Families and Aging
- 1.11: Family Resources and Economics
- 1.12: Parenting
- 1.13: Communication Stress and Conflict
- 1.14: Family Functionality and Crisis
- 1.15: Divorce
- 1.16: Remarriage and Stepfamilies