Chapters Eight and Nine: Love and Mate Selection

01/18/2000


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Table of Contents

Chapters Eight and Nine: Love and Mate Selection

Introduction

Family Formation

What is Love? Introduction.

John Lee The Colors of Love: An Exploration of the Ways of Loving

“Romantic” vs. “Conjugal” Love

Symbolic Interactionist Analysis

“Operational” definition of Love

Love and Gender

Mate Selection: A Social Exchange Perspective

Homogamy/ Endogamy in Mate Selection

Racial Homogamy

Inter-Marriages, 1980-1997

Racial Homogamy (cont.)

Religious Homogamy

Religious Homogamy (Cont.)

Social Class Homogamy

Social Class Homogamy (Cont.)

Mating Gradient

Age Homogamy

Age-based “Marriage Squeeze.”

Propinquity and Mate Selection

144lect11: Human Sexuality

Sociobiology and related perspectives.

Evolutionary Psychology

Sexual Strategies

“Short Term” and “Long Term” Sexual Strategies

Results of Study:

Differential Strategies

Differential Strategies

Evidence: Jealousy (Buss et al. 1992)

Evidence: “Mate Value”

Criticisms of Sociobiology and Related Approaches

End Chapters 8, 9

Author: Gene Starbuck

Email: [email protected]

Home Page: www.mesastate.edu/~starbuck

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