SOCL 2505 Chapter : SOCL 2505 CHAPTER 11 Exam 3
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Intimate partner violence: disagreement among researchers about what constitutes domestic violence, most studies focus on married and cohabitating couples, new studies focus on broader concept of intimate partners , boyfriends or girlfriends. New definition of rape: new definition is broader and gender neutral, may increase the number of rapes reported, may encourage more men to report being raped. The intimate setting: also common among dating couples, may be as high as 33, cohabiting couples most likely to be violent than dating or married couples, at this time we know little about violence in hook up relationships. Explanations: social learning perspective, frustration-aggression perspective, social exchange perspective. Social exchange perspective: social exchange perspective: people calculate whether to engage in a particular behavior by considering the rewards and costs of that behavior and the rewards of alternatives to it, nonworking wives more likely to be victims.
