SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Reproduction, Online Dating Service
14 Jan 2016
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* topics on the test: sexualities, families, education. Popular notions: sites of attachment, emotional intensity and sentimentality. Families are vital for individuals and for state. Associated with young adults (20-24 years old) Partnerships are flourishing: 54. 8% (aged 20+) married and living together, 12. 4% (aged 20+) living with common law partner, 7. 4% (aged 20+) living apart together. Dependency and intimacy: attachment, interdependency, expectation of reciprocity, long term commitment. Sexuality: adult partners- long term, exclusive, regulate sexual behaviour among family members. Protection: safe from internal and external dangers, family violence is a social problem. Material and financial support: basic support (food, clothing, shelter) Socialization: guidance, discipline, social rules, cultural reproduction. Rise of online dating: growing proportion of single adults, growing time pressure of careers, increase in mobility of single people, sensitivity to workplace sexual harassment. Internet has partly displaced the role of families, school, friends, workplace: post 2005, internet is the 3rd most likely way of meeting for heterosexual couples (us)
