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Chapter 7 Intimacy Flashcards

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1
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Macro-level Changes in Courtship

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From community to individual base level

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1900 Calling

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Young women inviting men to know each other for relationship

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1920s Dating

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Couple’s go out away from supervision of families

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Initiative shift

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Men ask women to date because they have money

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Courtship: rules defined by peers as…

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Shape to select partners or mute

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Courting

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Selecting mate

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Dating

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Finding romance and pleasure, for relationship and enjoyment

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Hookup

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Casual sexual encounters

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Group Dating/ hanging out

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Dating in groups for ambience

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Traditional gender roles expectations

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For interactions and behavior

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Women’s behavior

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Talking with friends or extra time to prepare as in scripts

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12
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Initiation of women

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Asking men out on a date

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Confusion re: expectations

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Young men asking out on dates

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The higher the class, the higher involvement

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Macro forces of upper class

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Upper class Opportunities

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Privileged social world meaning they can do whatever they want

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Middle class Opportunities

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Attend sponsored social events, churches or school play and likely to be supervised by parents. They could also move somewhere else for the sake of the children

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Lower Class opportunities

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Structured activities less likely due to lack of opportunities

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18
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People of color dating patter resembles…

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Lower class

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19
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Interracial relationships

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Organizational arrangements foster intergroup contact (military and University)

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Interracial dating

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More common and accepted but can be unfavored

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21
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Nonpractical considerations for mate selection

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Looks

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22
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Legal regulations

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Laws for who to marry or how to hold marriage

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Social expectations for mate selection

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Family members reactions to narrow potential pool

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Rising of interracial marriages

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1970s- 1%, 2007-5%

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Rise of approval rates for interracial marriages

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1958- 4%, 2007- 7%

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Homogamy

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People marry others similar to them

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Hypogamy

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Moving down in social class

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Hypergamy

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Move up in social class

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Preferences of men for choosing partner (1939)

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Dependable, emotional stability, pleasing disposition of women

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Preferences of Women (1939)

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Emotional stability, dependable, ambition for men

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Men and Women mutual attraction (1996)

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Mutual attraction, dependable character, emotional stability

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Sociology of Sexuality

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Examining how society shapes expression of sexual desire

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Social constructionist approach

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Diverse social arrangements produce variation in sexual desire and practice

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Two factors based on sexuality

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Behavior and desire

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Behavior on sexuality

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Sexual acts people engage in

36
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Desire on sexuality

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Motivation to engage in sexual acts

37
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Compulsory heterosexuality

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Enforcing heterosexual behavior as natural & normal

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Sexual Identity

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Self-classification as lesbian or gay

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Sexual orientation

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Sex of those to whom one attracted to

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Sexual Revolution: pro Creation

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Family centered reproductive system in colonial days

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Sexual Revolution: 19th century

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Romantic sexuality

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Sexual Revolution: 1920s

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Sexuality and relations as source of identity and happiness

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Commercialization of sex

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Commodified on television and media

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AIDS first reported…

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Goal treatment of AIDS

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Prevent and delay progression of HIV to AIDS

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Years of teen sexuality (decreased)

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1991- 51%, 2007-48%

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Median age for 1st intercourse

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16.9 for boys and 17.4 for girls

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Most likely to face teenage childbearing

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Latinos more likely than African Americans

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Sex Education: Philosophical perspective

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Normal, natural, and harmful if obsucured by ignorance

Scared and religion, sanctioned in interests of procreation

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Sex Education: Approach perspective

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Comprehensive and Abstinence to teach Young’s not to engage in sex

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Sexual scripts

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Sexual behaviors follow scripts to learn society’s expectations

52
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His Sex

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Increase in happiness- single to dating
Sex is casual
Stress performance
Learn sexuality and masturbation
Expect to be experienced
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Her sex

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Happiness in marriage
Sex as bonding experience
Stress emotional relationship
Learn about love and importance of boys
Expect inexperience
54
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His love

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Men in public sphere to be assigned in larger world to which love is secondary

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Her love

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In the private sphere, emotions work in relationships

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Same-sex Orientation

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Prohibited until 2003, with similar expectations

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Love and Class (Middle class women)

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Middle class women value intimacy, sharing, communication than Working class women, to which they have as secondary to financial problems

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Racial stereotypes of Black women

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Animalistic and sexually wild

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Racial stereotypes of Black men

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Hypersexual beings

60
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Limited information on intimacy among racial ethnics

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Stereotypes and prevailing ideology of love as a white, middle-class emotion

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