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| What is power? Who has power? Who doesn’t have power? |
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To punish another individual, force them to do something with the threat of punishment
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| ability to reward someone (praise, money, attention) |
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| power someone has over someone else when they have expertise over someone else (A professor) |
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| power you have when you information someone else doesn't (blackmail, you heard smoking is bad for you and you tell your smoking bf) you don't have to be an expert |
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A person who doesn’t have very much power gives power to someone else. We give power to the president or your boss |
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Type of power given to someone by another body, entity, or person.
For ex: Police officer is given power by the state of Florida to enforce the law. Attorneys also.
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how spouses share power that they have
first studied in the 1950s |
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-interviewed wives only
-asked them who they thought had the power
-Most families: 72% of wives had relatively egalitarian decision making structure (Both make decisions)
-25% of wives said husbands made decisions
-3% of wives said they made decisions
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(Blood and Wolfe’s hypothesis) the spouse with more resources has more power in marriage;
Women and Men Brought resources. But men’s resources were valued moreas
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| Criticisms of Blood and Wolfe's study |
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o What domains men and women have power over
o Women: Food, shopping, cleaning
o Husbands: where they live, jobs, finances
“Having the power to make trivial decisions is not the same as having the power to make important ones |
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Resources and Gender:
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§ Money
§ Education
§ Status
§ Physical strength
§ Alternatives to marriage
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Resources and Gender:
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o Women tend to be most equal with men at the beginning of marriage
§ First pregnancy and birth diminishes women’s resources
§ Female may take time off and lose income
§ Dependent on males to be father and earner
§ Have less energy to resist dominance of husband
§ Children somewhat force them into these gender roles
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| culture's influence on resource and gender |
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§ Resource theory does not explain everything
§ Culture gives husbands absolute legitimate power
§ Interaction of legitimate and resource power
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- Culture gives husbands power and husband’s have greater resources- husband will be dominant
- Culture gives husband power and husband has less resources than wife- husband will be dominant
- Culture does not give husband power and husband has greater resources than wife- husband is probably dominant
- Culture does not give husband power and husband less resources- egalitarian marriage or wife dominant
- 75% of them, man dominates
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- Most social classes perceive that they have egalitarian marriages (not always true)
- Upper class marriages are least likely to be egalitarian
- Lower and Middle class marriages are more likely to be egalitarian
- · Because both partners probably have to work, both bring resources and are vital
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