Alexis Silver
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Purchase College, State University of New York (email)
Families, Communities, Cultures
Offered:
2012 Focuses on the diversity of families, the challenges they face, their relationship to social institutions and communities, and how they interact with society at large. Students explore how social norms and public policy have benefited or constrained particular familial structures over time and examine how contemporary family formations are shifting normative social structures.
