Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Exogamy, Endogamy, Wedding Cake
20 Feb 2018
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Lecture 6: getting together: before you would have to ad in the paper if you were looking for someone to date or meet someone, any women that was looking for a partner was seen as inappropriate. Romantic love: until 1959 western society was the only place that saw romantic love as a way to find someone to marry, before you would get married for economic reasons and then raise your kids. Inappropriate mates will occur (people marrying people from different age groups and races): process of socialization teaches us love, what songs are saying and what movies portrays about love. These are things that teach us about love. Assumptions: love at first sight, love is blind, love conquers all. Romantic novels constitute almost 60% of all paperback fiction book sales. Elements of homogamy: (factors that go into who you marry)
