1. EXPLORING MARRIAGES AND FAMILY, 2ND EDITION Karen Seccombe
Chapter 3
Building Relationships
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2. Singlehood How Many Stay Single? It Depends on How You Define It
What Does It Mean to Be Single? A Useful Typology
Voluntary Temporary Singles: Unmarried adults who may be delaying marriage while pursuing education or establishing a career
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3. Figure 3.1 Percentage “Never Married” versus Percentage “Single,” Ages 15-85+, 2012
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4. Singlehood
Voluntary Stable Singles: Unmarried adults desiring a single (unmarried) lifestyle
Involuntary Temporary Singles: Singles actively searching for a mate but unable to find a suitable one
Involuntary Stable Singles: Unmarried adults who can expect to be single for life even though they may not want to be
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5. Friendships Being Friends: Sex Differences
Being Friends: Social Class and Race/ Ethnicity
Friendships between Women and Men: Just Friends?
Cross-Sex Friendship: A friendship between a man and a woman that is strictly platonic
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6. Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection
A Look at History: Macro-Level Influences on Our Micro-Level Choices
Courtship in Early America
Calling: A dating practice of the 18th and 19th centuries in which a young man would visit a young woman in her parents’ home
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7. Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection
Industrialization, Consumerism, and the Emergence of Dating
Adolescence: The period of life that occurs between childhood and adulthood.
Principle of Least Interest: The idea that unequal emotional involvement between romantic partners has implications for the quality and stability of relationships
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8. Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection
Macro Influences Today: Sex and Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Social Class, Sexual Orientation
Gender and Dating
Dating Scripts: A set of expectations around dating that are somewhat different for men and women
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9. Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection
Differences and Similarities in Dating Practices: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Identity
A Micro View: Who Do We Date and Where Do We Meet?
Dating Trends
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10. Figure 3.2 Percentage of 12th-Grade Students Who Never Date or Who Date Frequently (More Than Once a Week), 1991, 2000, 2010
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11. Table 3.1 Not Counting Work for School/Job, about How Many Hours Per Week Do You Spend. . . .
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12. Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection
Who Do We Date?
Homogamous Relationships: Relationships in which we spend most of our time with people who are very similar to ourselves
Propinquity: Geographical closeness
Pool of Eligibles: The group from which we are likely to choose our mates
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13. Figure 3.3 Acceptance of Blacks and Whites Dating Each Other, 1987–2009
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14. Heterosexual Cohabitation
Cohabitation: An arrangement in which two people live together without being married
Who Cohabits?
Attitudes toward Cohabitation: Is it still “Living in Sin”?
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15. Figure 3.4 Number of Cohabiting Couples of the Opposite Sex, 1960–2013
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16. Figure 3.5 Percent Saying Yes to “Have You Ever Lived with a Partner without Being Married?”
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17. Figure 3.6 Percent Saying Unmarried Couples Living Together is a . . .
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18. Heterosexual Cohabitation
Cohabitation and Marriage
Selection Effect: An explanation for the fact that people who cohabit tend to be the same ones who later divorce
Spurious: When a relationship between two variables is actually caused by a third variable.
Cohabitation and Children
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19. Gay and Lesbian Intimate Relationships
Commitment and Cohabitation
Similarities and Differences
Differences between Homosexual and Heterosexual Couples
Differences between Lesbian and Gay Couples
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