SOCL 1260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Married People, Family Values
7 Nov 2016
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Cultural definition of marriage: the (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:862)la(cid:374)ds(cid:863) a (cid:373)a(cid:374) She wants it, he has to be coerced. Marriage is the (cid:373)ost i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t day of a (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s life-spend lot $ Women have higher expectations- can be surprised by outcome. Marriage benefits men: married men report greater happiness than single men, unmarried women report greater happiness than married woman, married men report higher satisfaction, men remarry quicker, married men report better health than single men. Benefits of marriage: married people have. Lower levels of suicide/depression: marital happiness scores declining for men and women. Marriage is set up as an unequal relationship- expectations, different pressures. Gender in youth- names, pink or blue, gender reveal, toys, gifts. Phillip cohen- sociologist at university of maryland: www. familyinequality. wordpress. com inequality within family and between family and family types, unrealistic to get rid of inequality, ground not yet laid for family equality.
