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Exam 2 Chapters 7 8 9 10 11 12 and 13 Chapter 7 Building Relationships What does it mean to be single 4 types of singles Voluntary temporary singles unmarried adults who may be delaying marriage while pursuing education or establishing a career ex Focusing more on school or work than a relationship Voluntary stable singles unmarried adults desiring a single unmarried lifestyle ex Living together love each other don t think marriage is necessary Involuntary temporary singles singles actively searching for a mate but unable to find a stable one ex me because all guys suck and tally boys are gross Involuntary stable singles unmarried adults who can expect to be single for life even though they don t want to be Basically my fear of being alone forever because nobody will love me LOL Friendships being friends and sex differences Girls more verbal and self disclosing with their friends more shopping gossiping doing nails hugging etc Boys less personal and less intimate more activity and sports related high fives etc etc Being friends social class and race and ethnicity Working class long lasting friendships stick close together organization o Black men very strong sentiments about friends Middle class upper class less last friendships moving to a better opportunity if given geographic mobility friendships move from personal face to face to just emails and phone calls Can women and men be just friends Friendships independent of romance are rare Cross sex friendship Friendship between a man and a woman that is strictly platonic Cross sex friendships can give each other insight on what or how the other sex thinks feels and behaves Dating and Courtship and Mate Selection Why do we date Provides fun and recreation Offers companionship Allows intimacy Confers social status Assists in mate selection A look at History Macro level influences on micro level choices Courtship In Early America Calling a dating principle of the 18th and 18th century in which a young man would visit young women in her parents home Women didn t have much say in who was calling Industrialization Period Couples had less adult supervision because there were means of transportation movie theatres etc Adolescence The period of life that occurs between childhood and adulthood Principal of least interest The idea of unequal emotional involvement between romantic partners has implications for the quality and stability of relationships Dating scripts a set of expectations around dating that are somewhat different for men and women ex men paying on the first date woman looking nice Differences and Similarities in Dating Practices We date people who are similar to us in respect to race and ethnicity social class education age and religion Homogamous relationships relationships in which we spend most of our time with people who are very similar to ourselves Propinquity geographical closeness better chance of dating someone in Tallahassee or in close proximity Pool of Eligibles the group from which we are likely to choose our mates We meet the people we date at school work class out bars clubs online dating aka tinder Heterosexual Cohabitation Cohabitation An arrangement in which two people in a relationship live together without being married Cohabitation effect An association between premarital cohabitation and poorer marital outcomes Worse communication lower marital satisfaction more abuse higher rate of divorce etc Selection effect An explanation for that people who cohabit tend to be the NOW Cohabitation isn t really considered living in sin more acceptable same ones who later divorce but not necessarily a good thing Spurious When a relationship between two variables is caused by a third variable ex divorce is caused b c of personal freedom or weaker ties to religion Chapter 8 Love and Loving Relationships Love A strong affection for one another arising out of kinship or personal ties attraction based on sexual admiration benevolence or common interests forms from attraction Attachment theory A theory postulating that the way in which infants form attachments early in life will affect relationships throughout their life o Secure attachment infants feel safe when their mothers are out of sight ex dropping kid off at daycare and they re fine o Anxious ambivent attachment infants become nervous when their parent leaves the room and can show rejection when parents return ex dropping off at daycare and crying when they leave and then when they come to get them kid shows no desire or affection towards parent o Avoidant attachment infants show little attachment to their primary parent ex could care less no expectation that there mom would be there for comfort In class note Secure positive positive Preoccupied negative positive Fearful avoidant negative negative Dismusing positive negative Love in History Ancient Greek and Roman mythology did not associate love with marriage Early Christianity did not associate love with marriage 12th century during the middle Ages there were some precursors to our own ideas about love passion desire romance intensity idolizing the other and jealousy Courtly love A poetic style of the Middle Ages when poets or troubadours would write love and present them at the court of their aristocratic royal masters Feminization of love The process beginning in the 19th century in which love became associated with the private work of women in the home namely nurturing and caring for family members Top 12 Features of Love 1 Trust 2 Care 3 Honesty 4 Friendship 5 Respect 6 Desire to promote the wellbeing of the other 7 Loyalty 8 Commitment 9 Support 10 Accepting the other without wanting to change them 11 Desire to be in the others company 12 Consideration of and the interest in the other Romantic Love A type of love that is characterized by passion melodrama and excitement and which receives a lot of media attention Companionate Love A type of love that grows over time based on strong commitment friendship and trust Biological and Chemical Perspectives of Love Sociobiology An evolutionary theory that says all humans have an instinctive impulse to pass on their genetic material o People we marry women older men higher status Men younger women more fertile Biochemical Perspective of Love Theories suggest humans are attracted to certain types of people at which the point the brain releases natural chemicals that give us a rush we experience as sexual attraction o Bio genetics o Biochemical brain releases chemicals


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