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| Marriage traditional is the unification of how many families |
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| The gain of marriage is high or lower then previously |
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| The gain from marriage is reduced now |
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| Does the measure of peoples satisfaction with marriage predict what will happen in the future |
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| Why does it make sense to assume that even married people are available |
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| Because of the high level of divorce |
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| Exluding the baby boom, why were birth rates falling |
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| becuase advantage of marriage were declining. |
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| what are the 3 assumptions in an equal partner marriage |
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1- Division of labor in marriage is determined by husband and wives attitudes toward sex roles and major determinant of theses attitudes if the type of household in which a person grew up. FALSE
2. Wives who work outside the home are more satisfied with their marriages. FALSE
3. Husbands have nothing to lose by supporting their wives careers. FALSE. |
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| According to Gloria what do women want in their males |
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| women want their males to be ambitious/ successful. If a women doesn’t have ambition a male doesn’t look at her less. New marriages when wives are ambitious the marriage is less stable. |
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| how do the sexes project their own psychology |
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| if women knew the truth about male sexuality they might be less then possessive; If men knew truth about women it would lead to greater possession. |
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| Falling out of love is the symptom or the cause |
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| it is the symptom not the cause |
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| Are the sexes equally satisfied when partners perform domestic tasks |
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| wives have a problem for child care, women sad they cant watch their kids grow, this is not due to the amount of support husbands were giving their wives. |
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| o If they have satisfactory careers they support partners goals and careers then what would they have |
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| They have diff psychological priorities and have different experiences within the marriage |
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| How do dual carreer couples reduce their risk |
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| 1. When husbands status and income are higher than hers, 2. Working wives reduce their career involvement and assume more domestic responsibilities, 3. When wives income rivals their husbands they experience less conflict when they work in traditionally female occupations, 4. When they don’t have kids at home. All of this leads to the 4th assumption of equal sexes ideology: husbands perform domestic chores and child care, wives will be satisfied with their performance as husbands are with their wives performance of these tasks. |
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| What is Chodorow Sex Role Explanation |
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| - Women are care takers of small kids. In order for boys to become masculine they need to reject this identification in reject female qualities in themselves, but little girls can remained identified with their moms. This then makes males depend on relationships more than women when they get older. To stop this all kids need dads that are involved in childcare and girls need moms who work outside the home. |
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| What is Rossi Sex Role Explination |
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| men n women have different biological predispositions for parenting. Sex differences appear in infancy, before 3 years old, sex differences establish a basis on which socialization acts to exaggerates some differences and diminish others. |
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| True or False: The more the mans income is greater than the wives the less is expected of him to do some of the domestic work. |
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| What was the Womens movement a reaction to |
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| a ridigd sex role that defined women solely in terms of their relations to men as wives, homemakers. |
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| What are the different vulnerabilities men and females face in terms of marriage |
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| Working class guy is vulnerable compared to a 50 year old guy]. Women work to reduce their vulnerability but it increases their husbands vulnerability because this reduced the economic advantage of their marriages and their ability to provide domestic and care taking desires of their husbands. And men don’t want their women to work, and they don’t want to do more domestic work If their women is working. When a man is young he is more vulnerable because his wife is young anf she can leave him, and he doesn’t have a lot of money, when he is older that is all opposite. |
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| According to Agape how do people stay married |
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compare love and child welfare primary basis for long term relationship. People went through rough patches, but happy now they didn’t break up.
o Most marriage revolves around kids. Most people who stay married are now happy they are with the grandkids |
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