Università Roma Tre

Crisis and family transition: from extended family to nuclear family. Main sociological theories on the family with a focus on the feminist perspective. The birth of the couple, of marriage and the birth of the family in a procedural perspective: from the nascent statu to the institutional forms. The life cycle and the rites of passage of age in the development of the long and minimal family: a comparative perspective. The family in the dynamics of the private and the public: the transformation of intimacy, sexuality and policies for the family. The family in a triangular perspective: its symbolic core, its political value and its economic structure.