SOC425H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Four Asian Tigers, Scoot, Sex And Love
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Love was originally not involved in the marriage; they were usually arranged for families to get tgt as a unit. Societies were organized by kinship + gift-giving. Most common was giving away your daughter to families that you would like to build. In order to keep social cohesion + peace; kins would give each other gift relationships with = as a social unity. Before industrial revolution: love was not in the marriage; (if grew out, great but not expected: extra marital affairs were common. Individuals are trying hard to keep that love intact. Monogamy + sexual figure + love being the basis of showing emotions to your partners were all new emerging. The shift in the institution of marriage from one of a pragmatic interests (18th century) to that of (cid:862)romantic love(cid:863) (cid:894)20th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455)(cid:895) Prior to the period, romantic love was generally outside of marriage, yet increasingly became the basis of marriage.
