Culture and Relationships

Course content

This course aims to acquaint students with theories and research related to universals and cultural variations in personal relations. An important objective is to view the predominantly western research from a critical perspective. An attempt at including nonwestern research is made. Various types of personal relationships such as parent-child relations during infancy, childhood, adolescence and later adulthood, same-sex and different-sex friendships, sibling relationships, romantic and marital relations, family, relationships with kin and social networks and relationships in the workplace will be covered.