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| cross-cultural functions of marriage |
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establish ownership of children
property
labor and services
inheritance
non-blood kinship networks |
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more than one concurrent spouse
84% of known societies allow polygamy
more common as an ideal |
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| male permitted to have more than one concurrent wife (common) |
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| a group of men share a wife (very rare) |
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| multiple husbands and wives (group marriage) |
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single spouse
whole lifetime
one spouse at a time
most prevanlent in industrial societies, but only 16% of all societies
by population its the most common |
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| family ties and inheritance traced through father and male ancestors |
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| male control of social and economic functions of marriage |
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| wives forsake family of origin, are bound to husbands family |
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| family ties and inheritance traced through mother and female ancestors (jews) |
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| female control of social and economic functions of marriage |
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| husbands leave family of origin, are bound to wive's family |
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shared control over functions of marriage
lineage legitimate from both sides
shared, mixed locality of new family |
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| marriage by coitus (capture) |
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focus on procreation
marriage occurs if coitus is accomplished
evidence of coitus was legal proof of marriage
any means could be used
to prevent "marriage" unmarried females were chaperoned at all times
groomsmen helped rape bitches
in some cultures marriage occurred through war and capture of women |
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focus on prize, property
marriage occurs through religious, royal, or legal decrees |
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focus on alliances
marriage occurs through family negotiation
dowries paid by bride's family
bride price
could happen at any time in child's life |
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| marriage by personal choice |
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focus on individual happiness
marriage occurs though courtship and personal negotiation
role of love, sexual attraction
correlated with rise of democracy |
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desire for union
idealization of the other
universal human emotion
rarely encouraged as sound basis for marriage
seen as a threat to social, political, or religous order |
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| marriage transformed (1500 - 2000 CE) |
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to create maintain economic stability
to create/maintain adult emotional bonds |
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| Sternberg's model of romantic love |
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passion - feeling in love
intimacy - sharing deep thoughts
commitment - in sick or poor
incompatiblity of love types
changes in love type over time
intimacy and not passion are the greatest predictor of sex and marital satisfaction |
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physical attractiveness
proximity
similarity
reciprocity |
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| nature of bond with parents during childhood influences emotional attachment in adulthood |
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56%
capable of closeness and openess, while maintaining good emotional boundaries
affectionate and reasonably independent |
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25%
difficulty with trusting
suspicious, overly cautious |
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19%
over dependent, insecure, clinging, terrified of abandomnent, demanding chronic reassurance, fall in love quickly, seek extreme levels of enmeshment |
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about half the population is not married
25% never married
partners are similar to each other |
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lifetime monogamy highly valued
virginity at marriage
death till us part
traditional gender roles
male dominate
lots of children
not much sex, not much orgasm, not much birth control
double standard |
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virginity at marriage is not important
marry later
commit until it won't work anymore
dual earners
androgynous roles
few children
lots of orgasm and sex
use of birth control |
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| nonconsentual extramarital sexual relations |
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25-37% men, 15-29% female
inequality in marriage
males have more than one affair, females form emotional bond |
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| consensual extramarital sexual relations |
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need for additional partners
avoid secrecy
swinging
open marriage
group marriage |
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horny, available
homosocial
erotophobic
undesirable
"trial marraige"
cohabiting couples are equally likely to marry as non-cohabitng coouples
50% never intend to marry while cohabiting
urban, liberal, less religous, more sexual |
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7 year marriage duration on average
50% of marriages end in divorce
divorse is easy to obtain
unhappy marriages |
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| pre-existing factors of divorce |
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early age marriage
short courtship
first pregnancy occurs early
dissimilar background
divorced parents
infidelity |
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| factors that predict divorce in 4 years |
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withdrawal, stonewalling
contempt, disrespect
criticism, negativity
belligerence, volatility |
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| phases of homosexual relationship |
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blending(year 1) - falling in love
nesting(2-3 year) - making a home
maintaing(year 4-5) - resolving conflicts
building(year 6-10) - interdependence with individuality
releasing(year 11-20) - merging money, possessions, relinquishing separate control
renewing(year 21+) - restoring, reflecting |
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| marital rights denied to gays |
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spousal tax deduction
spousal ealth insurance
suport after divorce
property
inheritance
medical descions
worke's compensation
retirement benefits |
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