Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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This course will help students explore the life course – childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age – through a sociological lens. Topics covered will include an introduction to the concepts and theories of life course sociology. The course will then explore: the social construction and crisis accounts of childhood; the meaning of adolescence, the formation of youth cultures and their disintegration; and the meaning of adulthood and variations in styles of parenting (and their effects on children). The course will finish by examining the experience of old age in contemporary society and consider how sociologists have studied death, dying and bereavement.
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