SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Monogamy, Confluence, Nuclear Family
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Love and mate selection: natural selection, attractiveness, and advantageous traits, affective individualism, romantic love, and free choice, confluent love, reciprocal emotional and sexual pleasure, serial monogamy. Social force: resources like values, money, education, third parties like friends, parents, social homogamy (means likeness) and likeness on age, status, religion, appearance, propinquity and distance. Online dating: spousal alternatives: internet is a sea of alternatives, may increase divorce, network extension: extension of networks people normally uses for relationship. Tinder: women are more likely to report higher number of sexual partners, higher selectivity, more control, more power to shape encounter, shift in cultural conventions facilitated through technology. A nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and wife works without pay in the home: nuclear . Consists of a cohabitating man and women who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child: functions of the nuclear family.
