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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Mate Selection

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the wide range of behaviors and social relationships individuals engage in prior to marriage and that lead to long or short term pairing or coupling

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Anticipatory Socialization

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socialization directed toward learning future roles

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Dating

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a process of pairing off that involves the open choice of mates and engagement in activities that allow people to get to know each other and progress toward coupling and mate selection

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Courtship(Dating in Colonial Period)

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a period of time in which two people spend intentional time together in order to get to know each other with the expressed purpose of evaluating each other as a potential life partner

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Calling(Dating in Victorian era)

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a male suitor who would be invited by the mother of the woman to call on a woman in her home

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Going steady(1950s)

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an exclusive dating relationship with one partner which is a middle stage between casual dating and engagement to be married

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Hooking up(now):

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a casual sexual encounter that can range from meeting with a friend, kissing, making out, touching, oral stimulation to sexual intercourse, but with no expectation of future emotional commitment

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Women in Straight Relationships

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rank favorable social status higher

  • good financial prospects
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Men in Straight Relationships

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“good looks”/ “good health”; home life for themselves/children

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Homogamy

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the tendency to meet, date and marry someone very similar to ourselves in terms of important or desirable characteristics

  • race/ethnicity
  • education
  • religion(in the past)
  • political affiliation
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Hypergamy

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the tendency to marry upward in social status

  • women have less upward social mobility, more likely to engage
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Hypogamy

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tendance to marry downward in social status

  • men more likely to engage
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Romantic love

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the intense feelings, emotions and thoughts coupled with sexual passion and erotic expression that a person directs toward another

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eroticism

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concerning or intending to arouse sexual desire

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Infatuation

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a strong attraction to another person based on an idealized picture of that person

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Intrusive Thinking

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the distracted state in which you cannot concentrate on anything other than the object of your obsession

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John Allen Lee

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Three Primary Stages of Love: Storge, Ludas, Eros

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Storge

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a style of loving that is unexciting and uneventful, but focuses on companionship

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Ludas

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a style of loving that is more playful, nonposessive, less deep emotional commitment and lasting involvement

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Eros

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characterized by an immediate, powerful attraction, typically to the physical appearance of another

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Mania

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combines eros and ludas
1. obsession
2. possessiveness

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Agape

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combines eros and storge
1. selflessness /giving
2. expecting nothing in return

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Pragma

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combines ludas and storge
1. logic
2. sensibility
3. practicality

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Courtly Love

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1000-30001

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Human Sexuality

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refers to the feelings, thoughts, attitudes, values, and behaviors of humans who have learned a set of cues that evoke a sexual or erotic response

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Puritans in Colonial Period

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  • Marriage was a covenant w/ god
    • Sex was attached to marriage, so it was also attached to god/ religion
    • Not allowed to have sex outside of marriage, considered a threat to to institutions and a sin
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3 Main Purposes for Sex in Colonial Period

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  • Procreation
  • To bring the husband and wife together morally and physically
  • Husbands were expected to satisfy their wives
    • Pleasure was important
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Victorian Era Sexuality

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  • Born w/ a sexual instinct → not for pleasure, but for the drive to produce
  • Sexually normal = to be oriented toward reproduction
  • Sex was considered first useless and then abnormal
  • Men did have sex for pleasure (tolerated)
    • Men had desire beyond procreation
    • “Boys will be boys”
  • Women were morally superior with no sex drive
  • Term “homosexual” was created first (medical disorder)
    • Heterosexual second
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Monogamy

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exclusivity in an intimate relationship

  • Marriage - being married to only one person at a time
  • Sex - having sex with only one person at a time
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2011 Gallop Poll

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  • 91% of Americans said that married women or married men having an affair was morally wrong
  • Infidelity
    • 30-60% of married adults engage in infidelity
      • 20-25% Journal of Psych
      • W: 14%, M: 20% university of chicago
    • Ppl don’t wanna admit that they’ve cheated
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Advantages to Monogamy

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  • Sexual safety
    • Lack of infection
  • Social accpetance
  • Legal
  • emotional safety
  • Expectation of procreation
  • Paternity Assurances
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Disadvantages to Monogamy

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  • Toxic
  • Dishonest
  • Reinforces heteronormativity
  • Lack of sexual variety → boredom
  • “Sexual death”
  • “Monogamish”
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Singlism

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the negative stereotypes and discrimination faced by singles

  • came about during colonial period
34
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Social Ridicule of being single

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sterotyped as being defective, incomplete. Single men were more likely to be suspected of crimes. Umarried women by age 20 were called stale maid, or ancient maid, old maid

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Singlism Today

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  • 50% of American Adults are single
    • 28% of all households
  • people are single and liking it more
  • widowhood
  • more invested in careers
  • divorce rates
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Advantages of Being Single

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  • Personal freedom
  • more socially active
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Disadvantages of being single

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  • social ridicule
  • discrimination
38
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Group Marriage

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a marriage of at least 4 people, two women and two men, in which each partner is married to all partners of the opposite sex or gender

  • considered socially unacceptable
  • illegal in the US
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Oneida Community(founded by John Noyes, protestant preacher)

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  • lasted from 1849-1881
  • monogamy was not permitted
  • everyone shared work responsibilities
  • very egalitarian
40
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Commune

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a group of people (single or married, with or without children) who live together, sharing many aspects of their lives

41
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polygamy

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a form of marriage that involves multiple partners

  • in a hetero marriage: a person of 1 sex or gender being married to two or more people of the opposite sex or gender
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polygyny

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a form of marriage where one man is married to two or more women

43
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polyandry

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a former marriage where one woman is married to two or more men

44
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polyamory

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the practice of being in a romantic relationship but not married with more than one person at a time with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved

45
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Elizabeth Sheff created

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5 important functions of poly communities

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5 Important functions of poly communities

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  1. Assistance
  2. emotional assistance
  3. selecting dating partners
  4. financial assistance
  5. learn the term polyamory
47
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Polyamory values

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honest, gender equality

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