Gender and Family: Parenting and Care in Modern Ukraine
Course: Gender Studies (with option of Double Degree Program with Lund University, Sweden)
Structural unit: Faculty of Sociology
Title
Gender and Family: Parenting and Care in Modern Ukraine
Code
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
To know basic theoretical issues of gender sociology
To know specific issues on gender in family
To use theoretical knowledge for practical gender analysis of family, parenting and maternity
To be able to work with social and statistical information concerning family and parenting.
To make summary of resources in English, correct own conclusions.
Research presentation.
To conduct individual research.
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Knowledge of English level B2; sociological concepts , main sociological theories and approaches.
2. Ability to conduct sociological projects, gain sociological information, work with primary sociological data, read and write sociological texts in English.
3. Skills for search of relevant information in English, analyzing sociological information; participant discussion.
Course content
Discipline is focusing on peculiarities and consequences of gender order transformation concerning the institution of family in Ukraine, gender order transformation within gender, socio-cultural and feminist theories.
Particularly the course is focusing on marriage, family, childhood and parenting problems, current caring practices in and out of families, social structure influences in contemporary Ukraine, discourses and practices of maternity and parenting, civic activity of parents in Ukraine.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work / International Labor Organization, 2018.
Lyudmyla Males, Tymur Sandrovych Exploitation of the Intimate Sphere in Socialist and PostSocialist Ukraine IN Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies. Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe and East Asia Brill. 2014, pp. 83-121.
Strelnyk, Olena. 2017. Conservative Parents’ Mobilization in Ukraine. In Rebellious Families: Parents’ Rights Activism in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolzuk, 61-90, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, self-work, test
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Participation in discussion — during seminars themes 1.1.-2.5, gaining marks.
2. Controlling tasks — after themes 1.5. та 2.5
3. Individual research task - theme 2.1., 2.2
Language of instruction
English
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Departments
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