PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Mosuo, Arnhem Land, Married People
11 Dec 2016
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Psyc 3450 chapter 13 (crooks): sexuality and the adult years (pg. Typically provides stable family units, in which children acquire knowledge about their society"s rules and mores through the teachings of their married. Marriage functions as an economic partnership that integrates child rearing, parents or kinship groups performing household tasks, and earning an income. Many societies today are concerned about how marriage affects the social order and attempt to modify its impact. Collectivist cultures emphasize group, or collective, goals over individual aspirations: e. g. contemporary india, pakistan, thailand, the philippines, the. Individualist cultures stress individual desires and goals over family interests: e. g. present day canada, europe, australia, (cid:498)european(cid:499) brazil, and the, place considerably more emphasis on feelings of love as a basis for. Polygamy is likely to be practiced in collectivist cultures: one man and several women, remains prevalent in the middle east and other parts of africa.
