FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polyamory, Problem Solving, Incest Taboo
29 May 2018
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GETTING TOGETHER
• Mate Selection
o Sociological perspectives
▪ Structural functional
• Mate selection
o Necessary for order
o Perpetuate society
▪ Conflict
• Mate selection reproduces class structure
▪ Feminist
• Mate selection reduces women to objects
▪ Symbolic interaction
• Communication
o Developmental tasks
▪ Establish intimacy
▪ Build foundations
o Types
▪ Self-chosen
• Decided by couple
o Ex north American society
▪ Individual social security system fails
• Society helps
▪ History
• Romantic love
o Courtly love to courtship
o Sex to romantic love
• Settlement in early years
o Wilderness
o New settlements
o Large towns and cities
▪ Arranged
• Decided by families of the couple
o Ex south Asian society
▪ Individual social security system fails
• Family helps
o Factors considered in partner
▪ Values
• Complimentary needs
o Most attracted to partners who compliment them
• Social exchange
o Relationship success depends on comparing standards
▪ Law
• Incest taboo
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▪ Social group
• Endogamy
o same
• Exogamy
o different
▪ Propinquity
• Location
o Select partners that are nearer
▪ Personality
• Assortative mating
o Homogamy
▪ Age
• No difference
• Difference
o Women usually younger
▪ Racial group
• Status caste exchange
o Low blacks hardly ever marry whites
o Highs blacks might marry low whites
• Wheel of love
o All forms of love and friendship develop through 4 processes
▪ Rapport
• Comfort
• Reveal aspects of themselves
▪ Self-revelation
• Expose private feelings and ideas
▪ Mutual dependencies
• Individuals being to rely on each other
▪ Personal need fulfillment
• If needs are fulfilled
o Growing rapport
o Circle continues
• Dating
o 1920
▪ practice of dating emerged
o 1960
▪ dating patterns shifted
• varied
• egalitarian
o today
▪ adolescent goals
• identity
• intimacy
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