The latvian academy of culture

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points: A successfully passed test and an examination.
Literature:

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   LR likums "Par grāmatvedību".
   
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   LR likums "Par uzņēmumu gada pārskatiem"
   
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   LR Ministru Kabineta 1995. gada 7. XI noteikumi Nr 339 "Noteikumi par uzņēmumu grāmatvedības kārtošanu un organizāciju".
   
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   Benze, J. Finansu grāmatvedība. Rīga: 1995
   
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    Grebenko, M. Grāmatvedības uzskaite. I un II daļa; Rīga: 1995
    

The Name of the Course: Family Sociology
The Scope of the Course: 64 academic hours, (44 hours of lectures, 20 hours of seminars).

4 credit points. The form of assessment: an examination.

The Author of the Course: Lecturer Anda Laķe, Mg. artis

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: Basic knowledge in the history of sociology; proficiency in a foreign language.

The Contents of the Course: The course gives and overview about the history, problems and methodology of family sociology. The aim of the course is:

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  to give an insight into the place and role of the family in the development and functioning of the society analyzing different sociological and theoretical approaches in family research;
  
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  to reveal the difference in the possibilities of application of theoretical and empirical methods researching the characteristic features of family changes; and other themes of family sociology;
  
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  to reveal the link of the family with other social institutions and such sub-systems of the society as culture, politics and economics.
  
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  to give a functional and typological analysis of the family.
  

Thematic analysis:

Theme	Week	Type of classes and hours
1. The subject of family sociology. The specific features and differences of the philosophic and sociological analysis of the family. I.Kant, J.G.Fichte and G.Hegel about the family and the state. Family sociology as a unity of empirical and theoretical research.	1.	L2
2. A brief review of the history of family sociology.	2.,3.,4., 5.	L4,S4
3. The creation of a family. The social and natural aspect of the family. Industrialization and the family. Family crisis.	6., 7., 8.	L2,S4
4. Family types and their historical forms. Monogamy. Polygamy. A patriarchal family. A matriarchal family. The social, economic and psychological aspect of division. Authoritarianism and the family. Nuclear or a pair family. The big or the extended family. The characteristic features of “the Small” and “the Big” families. Large and 1-2 children families, their biological and economic preconditions and their correlation with the correspondent sociocultural norms. The social factors of the mass scale of 1-2 children families.	9., 10., 11.	L6
5. Family structure and its notion. The most characteristic social roles within the family: husband and wife, parents and children, relationship. The system of roles in the family. The open and closed system of roles. A personally oriented and positional family. The structure of the family and socialization. The notion of gender roles.	12., 13., 14.	L4,S2
6. The functions of a family and their notion. The characteristic features of the family as a social institution. The theory of family function and family crisis. Reproductive function, its importance in the inner and outer relations of the family. The function of primary socialization. The function of emotional stabilization of grown-ups.	15., 16.,17.	L4,S2
7.The inner relations in the family. Family and personality. Socialization in the family. The social psychological aspect.	18.,19.	L4
Marriage. Husband and wife relations as a type of family behaviour. The individual motivation of family foundation. The idea of a successful and unsuccessful family life. The possibilities of its sociological measurement. Cohabitation: the fall of the family life status. Reproductive activity and performance of family role as the type of family behaviour. Reproductive tendencies as for the number of children, gender, etc. Characterization of parent behaviour, its historical modification. Family-kin, intensity and advance of social-personal contacts within the framework of the extended family as a type of family behaviour. Social mobility of the family and the relative network. The sense of belonging to a family. Family conflicts.	20, 21., 22., 23	L8
8. The outer relations in the family. Family and society and other informal groups. Family and other social institutions. Family and economics. Family and politics.	24. 25., 26.	L4,S2
9. The basics of the methodologies of empirical research of family sociology. Operationalism of the notions, the creation of hypotheses and explanatory models, selection of empirical indicators.	27.	L2
10. The methodology and technique of empirical research of family sociology (a documentary analysis, a test, an interview, an opinion poll, a contents analysis, observation, etc.). Examples of real application.	28. 29., 30.	L2,S4
11. Analysis of real empirical research in Western, Soviet and Latvian sociology.	31., 32.	L2,S2