FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erik Erikson, Structural Functionalism, Norm (Social)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Olga Sutherland

Document Summary

Unit 3: the couple relationship intimate relationships. Marriage a socially, legally, and/or religiously recognized union of people who commit to one another. Mate selection the process by which partners are selected. Arranged marriages a type of marriage in which the partners are selected by a third party rather than by each other. Romantic love a strong emotional attachment often including a mixture of sexual desires, tenderness, affection, and playfulness. Mate selection is divided into two basic streams: those decided by the couple, those decided by the families of the couple. For structural functionalists, mate selection, regardless of the method used, is necessary to maintain social order and perpetuate society: this perspective focuses on on how mate selection is functional for society. According to conflicts theorists, the norms of mate selection tend to reproduce the existing class structure of society: this perspective focuses on on how mate selection really involves exploitation and the exercise of power.