Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online | Session 2 | N/A |
Unit description
Examines the connections between work and its various guises and the contemporary family in the context of late modernity. It profiles the family and the labour market, provides underpinning theoretical approaches and examines work/family issues and relationships, and their implications from a sociological perspective.
Unit content
- Family (historical overview, definitions, structures, role)
- Work (historical overview, definition, distribution, divisions of labour)
- The work/life clash
- Men, work and families
- Women, work and families
- Love and work (the implications of work for intimacy)
- Changing conceptions of time (short hours, long hours)
- Precarious work and care
- Who cares? (the ethics of care)
- The role of policy
- Families outside the labour market (jobless families)
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of work in its societal dimensions | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 2 | analyse the changing nature and role of the family | Cultural competence | ||||||
| 3 | display an awareness of the ways in which family and work impact upon each other | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 4 | critically explore work/family issues from varying theoretical standpoints. | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
Prescribed texts
Session 2
- Darab, S & Hartman, Y (Revised by S Darab & B Morris), 2014, Non-Standard Lives: Work and Family in Australia: Study Guide, 5th edn, Southern Cross University, Lismore.
Teaching and assessment
Online
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Essay | 40% |
| Essay | 60% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
Fee paying courses
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International
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