PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Exogamy, Physical Attractiveness, Social Exchange Theory
30 Dec 2016
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Some begin with premarital cohabitation but eventually tie the knot: mate selection based on sociological perspectives. Structural functionalists: necessary to maintain social order and perpetuate society. Con ict theorists: the norms of mate selection reproduce the existing class structure. Feminist perspective: women are often considered the objects of exchange; mate selection reduces women to objects based solely on their looks. Symbolic interactionists: focus on communication that occurs b/w couples as they develop and maintain the relationship. !1: interactions that a person develops while they rst start dating will most likely. Friday, september 30, 2016 continue throughout the relationship. Arranged marriages: historically speaking and even now in some societies, marriages are at least partly arranged, children of new canadians have some pressure put on them to marry within their ethnicities. A strategy commonly used by the parents of these kids id to restrict their social interactions. In an arranged marriage there is the free and informed consent of both parties.
