SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stephanie Coontz, Social Exchange Theory, System On A Chip
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Mating, marriage and the gendered division of labour slide 2 - exchange theory assumes that individual minimize the costs of being in a relationship. The rewards: you feel loved, afffected, intimate, someone attrative wealthy, but there are also costs invovled: the thigns you have to put into someones relatinship: for exmaple mellys annoying little weird sayings. They did a cross cultural study looking at japanse and russian studnets found that men rated physical attrativeness more then women. Women placed more imporatce on: money, social status, intelligence etc. Higher educated women have aharder time finding partners. Women with high level of eduactiona nd income have experienced lower marriage rates. If they get apired up with men with lower educational background. slide 5 - psychomadynomic influence of childhood and the choices that you make when you are in your twenties for example, looks at childhood and family.
