2010 Course Handbook
This is archived information!
Search current Handbook for current unit information.
SOC365: The Intimate Sphere: Love, Friendship, Family
This unit is about intimacy as a form, or various forms, of interaction. This is an eminently sociological way to look at intimacy, because when we think about intimacy we tend to imagine it primarily in terms of feelings: understanding and feeling understood; loving and feeling loved; supporting and feeling supported; feeling able to be yourself, to let go, to enjoy someone's company, closeness, comfort. This unit, then, is also an invitation to think outside these psychological categories and to exercise your sociological imagination. We focus on the contested nature of sociology's contemporary interest in the intimate sphere. We frequently turn to history to enable considered reflection upon present-day experiences. For contemporary love relationships, friendships and the ways in which family members interact, are subject to material and ideological changes that have their source in the beginnings of modernity.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Harry Blatterer |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCW(s): | |
| Unit Designation(s): | |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Sociology |
Timetable Information
For unit timetable information please visit the Timetables@Macquarie Website .