SOC 311 Parenting Perspectives
Becoming a parent is not accompanied with a manual, and most parents develop their parenting skills on the job. Styles of parenting, depend on many environmental and social influences, including culture, socio-economic status, prevailing social problems, ethnicity, the status and well-being of society at large, as well as current prevailing parenting patterns.
This course will explore various parenting perspectives and offers something for parents, grandparents, teachers, caretakers, or those who simply wish to study parenting. Topics include various parenting styles, intergenerational parenting, formation of the parent-child unit, culture, ethnicity, influence of socio-economic status, and more. Also including will be learning how to parent and parenting in a technological society.