Understanding your upbringing: How parenting behaviors are socially formed?

Abstract

Many students who take a lower-level Marriage and Family course are interested in understanding their own family lives. This writing assignment helps develop the students’ initial curiosity into a deeper sociological understanding of their own parent-child relationships. Specifically, this assignment is designed to help students 1) understand different...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Family

Resource Type(s):

Assignment

Class Level(s):

College 200

Class Size(s):

Any

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. To understand different methods of socialization and appropriately describe various types of parent-child interactions associated with those socialization methods.
2. To compare and contrast the parenting behavior that the students (would) adopt as parents and the parenting behavior that they received as a child.
3. To examine the extent and effects of the macro social forces on the micro level parenting behavior of an individual.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. In the form of a short paper (or essay) analyzing their parent-child interactions, how appropriately students can identify and describe different methods of socialization as they were employed by their parent(s).
2. In the form of a short paper (or essay) how appropriately students can identify variables involved in the two types of parenting behaviors that they compare.
3. In the form of a short paper (or essay) how appropriately students can identify various macro factors affecting the type of parenting behavior an individual would adopt in his/her relationship with his/her child.