CFT 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Intercultural Competence, Filial Piety, Bilateral Descent
16 Apr 2018
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People are getting married later than they used to. Focusing more attention on education and careers, ease of couples living together and having kids before marriage. Young adults experience similar underlying pressures to make commitments to adult roles and responsibilities. Cultural forces, social expectations and family norms. Pick a person with which they hope to have lifetime relationship . Adds new subsystem to family system, forcing change in identities, boundaries, hierarchies, alliances and coalitions. Lots is expected of a lifetime partner, making it an important decision with lots of thinking. Stage theories: largely descriptive accounts of different phases in a relationships" development. Social exchange: highlights intrapersonal and interpersonal factors that together account for development. Lewis proposed a theory of dyadic formation in 1972. Studies have shown that although these stages are common, it is different for many couples. Different for men versus women as well.
