SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Child Abuse, Chapter 27, Social Learning Theory
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter nine: patterns of violence in the family. Intimate violence is multidimensional in nature and research should be conducted accordingly. Narrow definitions not only trivialize many abused women"s subjective experiences; they also restrain them from seeking social support. Scholars call for definitions that include physical and sexual violence, as well as psychological, verbal, economic, and spiritual violence. They also argue that the later four behaviours are just as or more threatening than physically and/or sexually violent acts. Researchers use different types of broad definitions, depending on their field of interest. Living in a house of horrors : wife abuse. Wife abuse cuts across all socio-economic categories, but some canadian women are at higher risk than others. Cohabiting women are also more likely to experience more severe types of violence than their married counterparts. Economically disadvantaged women are also at higher risk of being physically assaulted by their male spouses.
