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| marriage in which the emphasis is on male authority, duty and conformity to social norms |
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| social constructionist perspective |
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| belief that human sexuality is entirely socially constructed |
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| intimate relationship entered into for its own sake and lasts only as long as both partners are satisfied |
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| continually enforcing gender stereotypes on a daily basis, conforming to traditional gender roles, achieved property, expectations on how women and men should behave |
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| state of having too many roles with conflicting demands |
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| resources that a person can access through interactions, economic advantage by virtue of the structure of his/her relationships with other people |
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| belief that human sexuality is determined by both social and biological factors, nature AND nurture |
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| extent to which peoples’ lives are affected by overlapping systems of class, race and gender-based disadvantages, often uses feminine model |
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| large, dense, single-ethnic group, almost self-sufficient community |
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| principle that whenever individuals sort themselves into groups non-randomly, differences among the groups will reflect preexisting individual differences |
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| when stressful events in one part of a person’s daily life influence other parts of her or his life |
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| fundamental change in marriage in the 20th century |
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| Shift toward allowing individuals to achieve a more fulfilling sense of self, marriage is a CHOICE |
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| publicly visible, has rules and restrictions |
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| primary component of early system of dating |
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| man paid for woman's company |
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| factors in changing the nature of marriage from companionship to individualization? |
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| rise in standard of living, increasing economic independence of young women, women exposing themselves to new ideas |
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| components of institutional marriage |
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| strict roles dictating how one is to behave within the family unit |
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| alternative way of being single or married, testing ground for marriage |
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| marriage acts as a symbol of status, enables couples to make joint purchases, increases likelihood that a child will be raised by two parents |
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| critical aspect that distinguishes middle class families as either white or black |
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| Assets: savings, investments, home ownership |
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| Why is "Hispanic" considered useless? |
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| Too general, lumps together new and old immigrants, stereotype that all Hispanics are illegal immigrants |
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| What groups of people differ in language, religion, alphabet and physical features? |
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| Asian-Americans, ethnic groups |
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| financially provide for their children from afar, believing it is in their best interest |
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| whiteness as an ethnicity |
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| Most derived from European immigrants, whiteness is not an inherent characteristic of these people, appears to provide power and privilege |
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| How are sexual identities socially constructed? |
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| differ from culture to culture |
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| most likely to show a link between biology and homosexuality? |
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| genetics and sexuality, identical twins raised in the same home |
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| Sexual life is artificially organized to reflect power of heterosexual norms, the norms we have concerning both heterosexuality and homosexuality |
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| changes in sexual activity since the start of the century |
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| Weakened the role of marriage as the core of family life, people could have sex outside of marriage without a huge stigma |
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| what helped transition sex-as-reproduction to sex-as-pleasure? |
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| modern methods of contraception: condoms and birth control |
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| characteristic of most couples today |
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| how is human sexuality determined, according to social constructionists? |
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| Entirely through social interaction, allows for differences |
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