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Exploring Marriage: From Arranged to Free Choice

Discover the different types of marriages, from arranged to free choice, and the cultural and societal factors that influence them. Explore the concepts of courtly love, bride price, dowry, and more. Understand the theories and strategies behind successful relationships and the challenges they may face. From endogamy to heterogamy, delve into the complexities of finding your perfect match.

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Exploring Marriage: From Arranged to Free Choice

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  1. Chapter 8Committing to Each Other Key Terms

  2. arranged marriageMarriages arranged by the parents of prospective partners. Partners may not even meet their prospective spouse until the wedding day. free choice culturePeople freely choose their own mates.

  3. cross-national marriageThe future spouse comes to the United Staes to marry or travels to the home country for the wedding ceremony. courtly loveRomantic love that flourished during the Middle Ages.

  4. bride priceMoney or property that the future groom pays the future bride’s family so he can marry her. dowryA sum of money or property brought to the marriage by the family.

  5. exchange theoryWhether relationships form or continue depends on the rewards and costs they provide to the partners. marriage gradientThe tendency for women to marry “up” with regard to age, education, occupation and even height.

  6. pool of eligiblesA group of individuals who are considered most likely to make compatible marriage partners. homoganyChoosing a partner that is like oneself.

  7. endogamyMarrying within one’s social group. exogamyMarrying outside one’s group.

  8. heterogamyMarrying someone dissimilar in race, age, education, religion, or social class. status exchange hypothesisAgreement that an individual might change his or her socially defined superior racial/ethnic status for the economically or educationally superior status of a partner in a less-privileged racial/ethnic group.

  9. blocking strategiesUsed to deflect negative response by screening, discrediting, or directly confronting the offending person or persons. transforming strategiesReinterpret negative responses to define them differently.

  10. theory of complementary needsWe are attracted to partners whose needs complement our own. assortive matingGradually sorting out the pool of eligibles who would not make the best spouse that they could find.

  11. getting togetherCourtship process in which groups of men and women congregate at a party or share an activity. • date rapeBeing involved in a coercive sexual encounter with a date or acquaintance.

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