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10.1 Discuss how definitions of families are socially constructed and change over time.

Video Link: The Role of Family and Social Change

Audio Link: Father’s Day 2011

Web Resource: The Changing American Family

10.2 Illustrate different patterns of mate selection.

Video Link: Attraction and Mate Selection

Audio Link: Slow to React – Isn’t it Slow-Mantic

Web Resource: Variation in human mate choice: Simultaneously investigating heritability, parental influence, sexual imprinting, and assortative mating

10.3 Provide examples of how families interact with other institutions.

Video Link: Institutions part 1 – education, family, religion    

Audio Link: Ten Years In

Web Resource: Cultural Trends, Social Movements & Institutions Affecting and Affected by the Family

10.4 Describe controversial issues concerning the family today. 

Video Link: Controversial family theme debated at Vatican assembly of bishops

Audio Link: A House Divided – Don’t Make Me Separate You

Web Resource: Changes and Issues Affecting American Families

10.5 Explain the formal and informal structures of schools.

Video Link: About nonformal learning  

Audio Link: Kid Politics – Minor Authorities

Web Resource: Formal vs. Informal Education

10.6 Present evidence that schools contribute to the reproduction of social class.

Video Link: Social Reproduction, Cultural Capital, Bourdieu and the Jam  

Audio Link: Back to Penn State

Web Resource: The Social Reproduction of Inequality