Sociology Family and Marriage Flashcards
Exam 3
4 Trends that shape dating
shifts in dating system, increase cohabitation, divorce, and tech
Romantic love
Passionate and in love
Utilitarian love
practical and functional
Social Scripts
Expectations of behavior
Cohabbitiation
More acceptable then in the past but less stable then marriage
Trend in marriage
people get married later and tend to be happier then unmarried people
Fertility rate below 2.1
population is shrinking
Fertility rate above 2.1
above replacement
Fertility in US
Declining since post-baby boom
Children
went from economic to symbolic
Intensive motherhood
mom sacrificing their own time to cultivate and be involved in their kids lives
Involved fatherhood
expected to provide economically and emotionally to children
Crude divorce rate
how common divorce is in the whole population
Refined divorce rate
the number of divorces compared to the number of marriages
Divorce marriage ratio
frequency of divorce in new marriages