Soc102 Family, marriage and intimate relationships

The process by which a commitment to marriage is developed.

Neither partners see eachother untill the day of their wedding.

The bride and groom are forced to marry against their will.

When a immigrant exchanges marriage to a US citizen for a green card.

Goods or money that a woman brings to the marriage.

Both partners play similar roles.

The process of meetiong people socially for the purpose of forming a relationship.

• 1.Recreation
• 2.Companionship
• 3.Intimacy and sex
• 4. Mate selection
• 5.Soocialization
• 6.Status achievement

Their nearness to you in place and time meeting people at sch, wrk etc.

Cultural expectation that a person marries with in his own social group.

Marrying outside your family group and not practice sex with a sibling.

One sex has a more limited pool of eligivle marriage candidates that the other

tendency for men to marry downward in class and women marry upward with respect education occupation success

• 1. Stimulus -physical attraction
• 2.Values- individual values
• 3.Roles - role compatiblity

Relationship driven couple and event driven couple

period of time that begins with the marriage propasal and a formal announcement that the couple plans to be married.

websites videos of others talking and sharing videos of yourself

Arrange introduction for a fee

Identity untill your ready to reveal it

a physical encounter that allows possible sexual interaction without commitment.

couples that do everything together "the college marriage"

couples living together emotionally sexually involved without marriage

• 1.The linus blanket- hight insecurity
• 2.Emarapation- independence from their parents
• 3. Convenience- partners that need fulfilment without benefit of a traditional marriage
• 4.Testing- trial marriage engaged

independence sex attitute religion income education

Social tolerance female equality women working

• Blending 1 yr infactuation
• Nesting 2-3 yr dealing with house hold
• Maintaining4-3yr dealing with conflict, household frequency of sex

a dual career marriage in which each partner lives in a different geographical areal, yet the pair still maintain their commitment to their family.

Financial reasons

a unit made up of two people or more people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption and who live together.

one person who lives alone or two people who live with unrelated individuals within a unit.

a pattern by whih a person organizes his or her living arangements in relation to others

among heterosexuals the never married widowed or divorced

• 1.Free floating single- unnattached and dates randomly
• 2.Open couple single- has a partner but is open to others
• 3.Closed couple single- faithful partner that is not open to others
• 4.Commited single- Commited to their partner and is engaged to be married-maintained fidelity
• 5.Accommodationist single- unnattached life, has friends but no romantic or sexual contacts.

Sexual inclination toward members of the opposite sex and sexual inclination toward members of the same sex.

Act of un fair treatment directed against an individual or group. An attitude or prejudging ussually negative of an individual or group.

anti prejudice- a negative attitude toward homosexuality and homosexuals

• Closed couples
• open couples
• functionals
• dysfunctionals
• asexuals

Egalitarian and no family support

people who have chosen to cohabit or share each others lives in an intimate and committed relationship

status similar to marriage allowing gays to benefits enjoyed by married heteros

• College living arrangements
• Elders
• Co housing communities
• Israeli farming cooperatives.

• a arrangement in which committed couples exchange partners to engage in purely recreational sex.
• married couple agrees that each may have emotional and sexual relations with others... and having their marriage the primary relationship

delaying having children to finish education, relationship etc

the loss of wages and wages and investments parents sacrifice by devoting time and energy to other persuits

leaving a newborn at a hospital er, fire station or other places.