Changing patterns of cohabitation Flashcards
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What are the benefits of cohabitation?
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- easier to move out
- don’t have to spend money on a wedding
- can get to know one another before committing
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Sociological reasons for the increase in cohabitation
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- Decreased stigma attached to sex outside marriage
- changing attitudes of the young
- increased opportunities for women
- secularisation
3
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Decreased stigma
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- there isn’t much stigma towards people having sex outside of marriage and it is becoming more widely accepted
- pregnancy doesn’t lead to shotgun weddings
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Changing attitudes of the young
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- less willing to get married before living together
- more common before but would want to ensure they are fulfilled in the relationship
5
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increased opportunity for women
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- women are doing more paid work so it means they dont have to marry to ensure that they are getting some money
- means they can be more dependent
6
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secularisation
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- less influnce of religion so they aren’t able to enforce their beliefs as much
- people arent pressured to get married before living together
7
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Andre Bejin (1985)
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- says cohabitation is a perfmanent alternative to marriage
- young people use i as a way of negotiating and not giving in to the patriarchal idea of marriage
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shelton and john (1993)
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- women benefit from cohabiting because they do less housework compared to women who are married
9
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Robert chester
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- says that cohabitation is a temporary arrangement before marriage
- cohabitation is the first step to getting married and is apart of the social process
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Sociologist views
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- feminist, would support as it means women have a choice and it allows them to be more independent
-new right, would be concerned as they believe in traditional nuclear families and dont like cohabitation as they believe it could create more LPFs
-postmodern, allows for diversity and it means that society is changing so it is normal to cohabit
