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Love and Marriage

Love and Marriage. Chapters 7 & 8. Intimacy. Emotionally and affectionately close to another person. Love. Passionate love – intense, sexually thrilling – beginning Companionate love – quiet, predictable. Constructs of love. Cultural

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Love and Marriage

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  1. Love and Marriage Chapters 7 & 8

  2. Intimacy • Emotionally and affectionately close to another person

  3. Love • Passionate love – intense, sexually thrilling – beginning • Companionate love – quiet, predictable

  4. Constructs of love • Cultural • Feminization – love defined in terms of feminine characteristics

  5. Sexuality • Biology and culture

  6. Sexual Orientation • Compulsory heterosexuality (heterosexual normative) – hetersexuality is the norm • Biology and culture

  7. Sex • Recreational sex – sex for pleasure • Relational sex – sex in context of relationship • Sexual double standard – different rules about sexual behavior

  8. Dating • History • Bundling • calling • Contemporary

  9. Attraction and Relationship Formation Theories • Parental investment – based on offspring survival • Stage – after attraction – rapport, self-disclosure, and mutual dependency/need fulfillment • Social exchange - benefits

  10. Marriage • Endogamy – marriage within a social group • Exogamy – marriage outside of social group

  11. Social Expectations • Interdependence • Equity • Commitment • Permanence • Exclusivity • Coupledom

  12. Coupled life • Private culture • Communication

  13. Cohabitation • Data and trends

  14. Aspects of marriage • Contract • Ceremony • Benefits • Problems

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