SO 336 - Sociology of Family Law

This course focuses on how the law affects families. Cultural characteristics of marriage and the family have changed, impacting case law, and vice versa. This course analyzes the family and family law through a sociological lens, examining the historical and theoretical definitions of family and gender, the evolution of legal rights through the birth of privacy as it relates to family, marriage and alternatives, such as divorce, the parent-child relationship, and the impact on family in a socio-legal context.

Four credits.