Chapter 6

Question 1

Norms

Answer 1

Unwritten rules of conduct; norms are changing

Question 2

4 reasons for singlehood

Answer 2

Changes in the economy; it’s a money thing
Changes in social, cultural, and technological things,
Population dynamics (sex ratio) - a growing imbalance between the sexes
Changing attitudes about marriage

Question 3

Cohabitation

Answer 3

Couples who often share interest (economics, sexual, or other interest) who live together and aren’t married. People live together first before marriage.

Question 4

4 reasons of Cohabitation

Answer 4

1. Linus Blanket
2. Emancipation Cohabitation
3. Convenience Cohabitation
4. Testing Cohabitation

Question 5

Linus Blanket

Answer 5

Security issue

Question 6

Emancipation Cohabitation

Answer 6

Freedom; looking for freedom from something

Question 7

Convenience Cohabitation

Answer 7

Saving money

Question 8

Testing Cohabitation

Answer 8

To see if the relationship would work

Question 9

4 reasons of Cohabiting Couples vs. Married Couples

Answer 9

1. Less alike
2. More short termed
3. More domestic violence than marital relationships.
4. One or both partners usually less well educated

Question 10

Critical thinking

Answer 10

The ability to ask any questions that can be justified within reason and to answer that question leaving all bias aside

Question 11

Sociological imagination

Answer 11

The ability to understand the relationship between individual occurrences and all society as a whole