Family changes in European perspective WSE-PS-FCiEP

1. The demographic outlook for Europe focused on family changes: population changes, trends of family changes by country
2. Theories of the family in historical roots of key concepts of kinship and family in sociology
3. Family types and structures in Europe: different types of families across the EU, distribution of work in households
4. Individualization, intimacy, and Family life
5. Standards of living in European families: economic strain, household debt, housing insecurity, deprivation
6. Work and work-life balance in families across Europe: work preferences, work-life conflict, access to childcare services, work-life challenges across generations
7. New motherhood and new parenting: child care and new family forms
8. Parenting practices and values
9. Life satisfaction and happiness in European families: income satisfaction, optimism about the future, mental well-being
10. Families and ageing societies:
11. Relation between generations: the population of older people in the European Union, future trends in ageing, participation in society
12. Family policies in EU countries, a comparative analysis
13-15. Students' project - presentation

1. The demographic outlook for Europe focused on family changes: population changes, trends of family changes by country
2. Theories of the family in historical roots of key concepts of kinship and family in sociology
3. Family types and structures in Europe: different types of families across the EU, distribution of work in households
4. Individualization, intimacy, and Family life
5. Standards of living in European families: economic strain, household debt, housing insecurity, deprivation
6. Work and work-life balance in families across Europe: work preferences, work-life conflict, access to childcare services, work-life challenges across generations
7. New motherhood and new parenting: child care and new family forms
8. Parenting practices and values
9. Life satisfaction and happiness in European families: income satisfaction, optimism about the future, mental well-being
10. Families and ageing societies:
11. Relation between generations: the population of older people in the European Union, future trends in ageing, participation in society
12. Family policies in EU countries, a comparative analysis
13-15. Students' project - presentation

1. The demographic outlook for Europe focused on family changes: population changes, trends of family changes by country
2. Theories of the family in historical roots of key concepts of kinship and family in sociology
3. Family types and structures in Europe: different types of families across the EU, distribution of work in households
4. Individualization, intimacy, and Family life
5. Standards of living in European families: economic strain, household debt, housing insecurity, deprivation
6. Work and work-life balance in families across Europe: work preferences, work-life conflict, access to childcare services, work-life challenges across generations
7. New motherhood and new parenting: child care and new family forms
8. Parenting practices and values
9. Life satisfaction and happiness in European families: income satisfaction, optimism about the future, mental well-being
10. Families and ageing societies:
11. Relation between generations: the population of older people in the European Union, future trends in ageing, participation in society
12. Family policies in EU countries, a comparative analysis
13-15. Students' project - presentation

Required readings - Textbook
Deborah-Chambers, A Sociology of Family Life, Polity-Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015
James Fulcher, John Scott, Sociology, 4th Edition, Oxford 2012

Recommended readings
Earl Babbie, Introduction to Social Research, 5th Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Belmont USA, 2011
Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today, New York Knopf, 2009
V. Bengtson et al. (eds.), Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005
Ron Lesthaeghe, The second demographic transition in Western countries: An interpretation. In K. Oppenheim Jason, & A.-M. Jensen (Eds.), Gender and family change in industrialized countries (pp. 17-62). Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995
Casper Lynne, Family Demography, in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2007
Active ageing and solidarity between generations, A statistical portrait of the European Union 2012, Eurostat Statistical books 2012
Ageing Europe LOOKING AT THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE IN THE EU 2020 Edition, Statistical Books, Eurostat 2020
B. Janta, Caring for children in Europe, RAND EUROPE, UE 2014
European Demographic Data Sheet 2020 Key findings, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/data/demographic-data-sheets/european-demographic-data-sheet-2020
E. Milovidov, PARENTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Positive parenting strategies for different scenarios, Council of Europe, https://www.coe.int/en/web/children
M. Kawinska, Older People on the Labour Market ― Activation and Deactivation, in K. Śledzińska ed. Responsibility – Participation – Conscious Citizenship The Dilemmas of Global Education, WWS, Warszawa 2018, pp. 133-146
M. Kawinska, Contemporary Parenting in the Face of Social Changes in the Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, in Socialinis ugdymas, 2017, t. 47, Nr. 3, pp. 77- 88.
M. Kawinska, Ageing and the silver economy – challenges and opportunities for social policy in Poland, in NIER National Institute for Economic Research nr. 3/2017, Chisinau 2017, pp. 84-91

Required readings - Textbook
Deborah-Chambers, A Sociology of Family Life, Polity-Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015
James Fulcher, John Scott, Sociology, 4th Edition, Oxford 2012

Recommended readings
Earl Babbie, Introduction to Social Research, 5th Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Belmont USA, 2011
Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today, New York Knopf, 2009
V. Bengtson et al. (eds.), Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005
Ron Lesthaeghe, The second demographic transition in Western countries: An interpretation. In K. Oppenheim Jason, & A.-M. Jensen (Eds.), Gender and family change in industrialized countries (pp. 17-62). Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995
Casper Lynne, Family Demography, in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2007
Active ageing and solidarity between generations, A statistical portrait of the European Union 2012, Eurostat Statistical books 2012
Ageing Europe LOOKING AT THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE IN THE EU 2020 Edition, Statistical Books, Eurostat 2020
B. Janta, Caring for children in Europe, RAND EUROPE, UE 2014
European Demographic Data Sheet 2020 Key findings, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/data/demographic-data-sheets/european-demographic-data-sheet-2020
E. Milovidov, PARENTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Positive parenting strategies for different scenarios, Council of Europe, https://www.coe.int/en/web/children
M. Kawinska, Older People on the Labour Market ― Activation and Deactivation, in K. Śledzińska ed. Responsibility – Participation – Conscious Citizenship The Dilemmas of Global Education, WWS, Warszawa 2018, pp. 133-146
M. Kawinska, Contemporary Parenting in the Face of Social Changes in the Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, in Socialinis ugdymas, 2017, t. 47, Nr. 3, pp. 77- 88.
M. Kawinska, Ageing and the silver economy – challenges and opportunities for social policy in Poland, in NIER National Institute for Economic Research nr. 3/2017, Chisinau 2017, pp. 84-91

Required readings - Textbook
Deborah-Chambers, A Sociology of Family Life, Polity-Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015
James Fulcher, John Scott, Sociology, 4th Edition, Oxford 2012

Recommended readings
Earl Babbie, Introduction to Social Research, 5th Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Belmont USA, 2011
Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today, New York Knopf, 2009
V. Bengtson et al. (eds.), Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005
Ron Lesthaeghe, The second demographic transition in Western countries: An interpretation. In K. Oppenheim Jason, & A.-M. Jensen (Eds.), Gender and family change in industrialized countries (pp. 17-62). Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995
Casper Lynne, Family Demography, in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2007
Active ageing and solidarity between generations, A statistical portrait of the European Union 2012, Eurostat Statistical books 2012
Ageing Europe LOOKING AT THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE IN THE EU 2020 Edition, Statistical Books, Eurostat 2020
B. Janta, Caring for children in Europe, RAND EUROPE, UE 2014
European Demographic Data Sheet 2020 Key findings, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/data/demographic-data-sheets/european-demographic-data-sheet-2020
E. Milovidov, PARENTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Positive parenting strategies for different scenarios, Council of Europe, https://www.coe.int/en/web/children
M. Kawinska, Older People on the Labour Market ― Activation and Deactivation, in K. Śledzińska ed. Responsibility – Participation – Conscious Citizenship The Dilemmas of Global Education, WWS, Warszawa 2018, pp. 133-146
M. Kawinska, Contemporary Parenting in the Face of Social Changes in the Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, in Socialinis ugdymas, 2017, t. 47, Nr. 3, pp. 77- 88.
M. Kawinska, Ageing and the silver economy – challenges and opportunities for social policy in Poland, in NIER National Institute for Economic Research nr. 3/2017, Chisinau 2017, pp. 84-91

Required readings - Textbook
Deborah-Chambers, A Sociology of Family Life, Polity-Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015
James Fulcher, John Scott, Sociology, 4th Edition, Oxford 2012

Recommended readings
Earl Babbie, Introduction to Social Research, 5th Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Belmont USA, 2011
Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today, New York Knopf, 2009
V. Bengtson et al. (eds.), Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005
Ron Lesthaeghe, The second demographic transition in Western countries: An interpretation. In K. Oppenheim Jason, & A.-M. Jensen (Eds.), Gender and family change in industrialized countries (pp. 17-62). Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995
Casper Lynne, Family Demography, in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2007
Active ageing and solidarity between generations, A statistical portrait of the European Union 2012, Eurostat Statistical books 2012
Ageing Europe LOOKING AT THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE IN THE EU 2020 Edition, Statistical Books, Eurostat 2020
B. Janta, Caring for children in Europe, RAND EUROPE, UE 2014
European Demographic Data Sheet 2020 Key findings, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/data/demographic-data-sheets/european-demographic-data-sheet-2020
E. Milovidov, PARENTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Positive parenting strategies for different scenarios, Council of Europe, https://www.coe.int/en/web/children
M. Kawinska, Older People on the Labour Market ― Activation and Deactivation, in K. Śledzińska ed. Responsibility – Participation – Conscious Citizenship The Dilemmas of Global Education, WWS, Warszawa 2018, pp. 133-146
M. Kawinska, Contemporary Parenting in the Face of Social Changes in the Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, in Socialinis ugdymas, 2017, t. 47, Nr. 3, pp. 77- 88.
M. Kawinska, Ageing and the silver economy – challenges and opportunities for social policy in Poland, in NIER National Institute for Economic Research nr. 3/2017, Chisinau 2017, pp. 84-91

This lecture will be conducted online - on the Teams and Moodle platform (materials)

This lecture will be conducted online - on the Teams and Moodle platform (materials)