Introduction to Sociology - Online
Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes, Videos & Web Sites

Unit 11: Family and Religion

Readings:

Macionis, Society: The Basics, chapter 13 ("Family and Religion")

Family

Stephanie Coontz, "Do Millennial Men Want Stay-at-Home Wives?," The New York Times, March 31, 2017

Hunter Oatman-Stanford, "Can't Buy Me Love: How Romance Wrecked Traditional Marriage, Collector's Weekly, November 1, 2013

Philip N. Cohen, "Marriage is Over: “Live With It”

Rich Morin, "The Public Renders a Split Verdict On Changes in Family Structure," Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends, February 16, 2011

Kim Parker &Wendy Wang, "Modern Parenthood," Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends, March 14, 2013

Gretchen Livingstone, "The Rise of Single Fathers: A Ninefold Increase Since 1960," Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends, July 2, 2013

"Loving Decision: 40 Years of Legal Interracial Unions,", NPR, June 11, 2007

Wendy Wang, "The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender,"Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends, February 16, 2012

"US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High," Gallup Poll, Politics, May 15, 2017

Religion

"Majority in US Still Say Religion Can Answer Most Problems", Gallup Poll, Politics, May 15, 2017

Joseph Gerteis, "The Social Functions of Religion in American Political Culture," The Society Pages, March 14, 2012

David Masci, "Supreme Court Revisits Legislative Prayer in Town of Greece v. Galloway," Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, November 4, 2013

"Growth of the Nonreligious," Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, July 2, 2013

David Campbell and John Green (Discussion), "American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us," Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, December 16, 2010

"The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society," Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, April 30, 2013

Geneive Abdo, "Like most Americans, U.S. Muslims concerned about extremism in the name of Islam," Pew Fact Tank: News in the Numbers, August 14, 2017

"Americans Express Increasingly Warm Feelings Toward Religious Groups:
Jews, Catholics continue to receive warmest ratings, atheists and Muslims move from cool to neutral," Pew Research Center, Religion and Public Life, February 15, 2017

"Lobbying for the Faithful,"Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, May 15, 2012

"Faith on the Hill: The Religious Composition of the 113th Congress," Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, January 2, 2013

View the Following Videos:

"A Date with Your Family"(1950)

 

Stephanie Coontz, “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”

 

"The Loving Story": Interview with Director