Chapter 7 Intimacy Flashcards

Learn the concepts and Terms (60 cards)

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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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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
1958- 4%, 2007- 7%
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Homogamy
People marry others similar to them
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Hypogamy
Moving down in social class
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Hypergamy
Move up in social class
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Preferences of men for choosing partner (1939)
Dependable, emotional stability, pleasing disposition of women
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Preferences of Women (1939)
Emotional stability, dependable, ambition for men
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Men and Women mutual attraction (1996)
Mutual attraction, dependable character, emotional stability
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Sociology of Sexuality
Examining how society shapes expression of sexual desire
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Social constructionist approach
Diverse social arrangements produce variation in sexual desire and practice
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Two factors based on sexuality
Behavior and desire
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Behavior on sexuality
Sexual acts people engage in
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Desire on sexuality
Motivation to engage in sexual acts
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Compulsory heterosexuality
Enforcing heterosexual behavior as natural & normal
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Sexual Identity
Self-classification as lesbian or gay
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Sexual orientation
Sex of those to whom one attracted to
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Sexual Revolution: pro Creation
Family centered reproductive system in colonial days
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Sexual Revolution: 19th century
Romantic sexuality
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Sexual Revolution: 1920s
Sexuality and relations as source of identity and happiness
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Commercialization of sex
Commodified on television and media
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AIDS first reported...
1981
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Goal treatment of AIDS
Prevent and delay progression of HIV to AIDS
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Years of teen sexuality (decreased)
1991- 51%, 2007-48%
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Median age for 1st intercourse
16.9 for boys and 17.4 for girls
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Most likely to face teenage childbearing
Latinos more likely than African Americans
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Sex Education: Philosophical perspective
Normal, natural, and harmful if obsucured by ignorance Scared and religion, sanctioned in interests of procreation
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Sex Education: Approach perspective
Comprehensive and Abstinence to teach Young's not to engage in sex
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Sexual scripts
Sexual behaviors follow scripts to learn society's expectations
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His Sex
``` 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
``` Happiness in marriage Sex as bonding experience Stress emotional relationship Learn about love and importance of boys Expect inexperience ```
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His love
Men in public sphere to be assigned in larger world to which love is secondary
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Her love
In the private sphere, emotions work in relationships
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Same-sex Orientation
Prohibited until 2003, with similar expectations
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Love and Class (Middle class women)
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
Animalistic and sexually wild
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Racial stereotypes of Black men
Hypersexual beings
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Limited information on intimacy among racial ethnics
Stereotypes and prevailing ideology of love as a white, middle-class emotion