SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ball Gown, Heterosexuality, Endogamy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 605
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Marriage + intimacy: changing patterns of intimacy, wedding traditions, cohabitation + intimacy, similarities + differences between partners, exchange theory, having children. Until after 1850, everyone had an arranged marriage. Arranged marriage: marriage b/w families, business arrangement- money in exchange for social status, maintain religious community and ethnic community. No expectation of love or like b/w partners, no expectation of monogamy after the first male hier was born. Working class couldn"t have white dresses until ww1. The ones that like you writes to you telling you how they imagine you, then you write to them telling you how you imagine you, back and forth mail. Dating doesn"t happen until after ww1, even so it was heavily chaperone. Flappers emerging in the 1920s: challenging womens virginity, chastity, throwing off cordsets in the victorin ers, didn"t wear undergarments, fought for womens rights. Healvy regulation of heterosexuality and womens sexuality until 1950s and 1960s.