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Oct 23, 2026
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SOC 1102 - Relationships, Marriage, and Family
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course presents the social and cultural forces that have implications for the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships with special attention to marriage and family forms and functioning. Additionally, the course will compare social/cultural patterns and implications for individuals, groups, and society. The course includes (but is not limited to) a focus on social aspects of relationship formation (mate selection), familial roles, parental roles, sexuality, gender, and relationships distinction.
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: College-level reading, college-level writing
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 05B: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Goal 07A: Human Diversity, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Analyze social and cultural elements in shaping relationship, marriage, and family formation.
- Evaluate scientific data related to relationships, marriage, and family from diverse social and cultural contexts.
- Evaluate the social/cultural syntheses that shape individual context for relationship, marriage, and family processes.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the social/cultural analysis of gender roles and the relevance to relationships, marriage, and family.
- Compare how individual choices and patterns are formed by social/cultural forces.
- Demonstrate understanding of the economic forces affecting relationships, marriage, and families with a sociological awareness.
- Comprehend aspects of the social/cultural role of sexuality in and outside of relationships, marriage, and family.
- Analyze social factors and conditions in the ending of relationships.
- Understand the value of the interconnectedness of relationships, marriage, and family.
- Evaluate the connection of parental roles and parenting styles/patterns in social/cultural contexts.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Cross-cultural forms of marriage and family
- Functions of marriage and family
- Relationship formation patterns (mate selection, intimacy, love, and companionate relationships)
- Gender roles
- Parental roles and parenting styles
- Economic and work issues in relationships, marriage, and family
- Relationship issues: communication, separation and the ending of relationships
- Aging and relationships
- Family crises
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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