Family Culture and Ethnic Diversity: Exam 2
How young boys and girls are educated and socialized about sex
Boys: learn about genital sexuality and masturbation, seek sexuality to affirm their masculinity. Girls: learn about love and the importance of boys, pressured to have sex.
Why people are poor vs wealthy
Cultural theoretical: each class is seen as having its own distinct culture and lifestyle Culture of poverty: the poor have certain characteristics that set them apart from the rest of society and those explain continued poverty. Structural: class position rests on people's own efforts and abilities.
Biggest trigger of poverty
Dramatic change, job loss, family breakup
Who tends to experience poverty the most
Final headed families, African Americans, Latinos, and the elderly.
What is colorism
Lighter skin is considered to be prettier and is more valued.
His & Her love
Love is feminized, it is the woman's responsibility to worry about love. women: engage in emotion work and closely scrutinize their experiences of love. men: fall in love more quickly and deliberately, love cannot be controlled and occurs automatically.
Factors in choosing dating/sex partners
Lower class: job, not alcoholic, not abusive upper class: Meets emotional needs men: tall, round eyes, muscle build, older than women women: hourglass figure and large breasts
Hook up culture
Men: women:
When do men and women experience highest spikes in happiness?
Men: single to dating women: transition to marriage
Why are people poor
People often fall into poverty because of a dramatic change such as job loss poor unexpected trauma. Second to that is family breakup.
poverty main points
Poverty isn't permanent. Poverty isn't an outcome of how poor people think. Poverty reduces likelihood of marriage.
Who do we know ourselves to be vs. how we present ourselves
Pressure to perform publicly, what are the implications on our relationships?
Sex ratio hypothesis
Ratio stands at 74 college men per 100 college women. This hypothesis argues that an oversupply of women gives men more power - so women who actually desire sex within a commitment might settle for it with "no strings attached" in hopes that it might lead to a relationship
What kind of construct is race
SOCIAL
Intersectionality
The complex cumulative ways the effects of multiple forms of discrimination combine overlap or intersect.
Impact of the Industrial Revolution on relationships
The purpose of marriage shifted from economic necessity to companionship, and now is increasingly focused on personal growth & individual fulfillment through deeper intimacy. Our social identities are no longer tied to the family collective.
Then and now to 3 things
Then: men: dependable character, emotional stability, pleasing disposition women: emotional stability, dependable character, ambition Now: both: mutual attraction and love, dependable character, emotional stability
Waller's principle of least interest
Those who have the least interest hold the most power
Homogamy
marriage between people with the same social characteristics
Sexual scripts
sets of implicit rules that specify proper sexual behavior for a person in a given situation, varying with the person's gender, age, religion, social status, and peer group
Invisible work
the intellectual, mental, and emotional work that goes into marriage, household maintenance and childcare usually done by women
