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| a style of loving that combines eros and storge, is selfless and giving, expecting nothing in return |
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| sexual assault by a person with whom the victim is familiar |
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| expressing a wide range of attitudes and behaviors with no gender role differentiation. androgyny is the combination of both culturally defined feminine and masculine traits in an individual. |
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| anticipatory socialization |
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| socialization directed toward learning future roles |
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| a detailed and in-depth examination of a single unit or instance of some phenomenon |
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| a situation in which the women and men in a group are simultaneously married to one another |
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| a theoretical perspective that focuses on conflicting interests among various groups and institutions in society |
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| an activity in which several teenagers (usually male) pack into a car and drive around the neighborhood looking for females to pick up |
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| sexual assault by a person with whom the victim had gone on a date |
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| the perpetration or threat of an act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating or courtship, encompassing any form of sexual assault, physical violence, and verbal or emotional abuse |
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| developmental family life cycle theory/ life course theory |
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| a theory that explains family life in terms of a process that unfolds over the life course of families |
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| a sum of money or property brought by the female to a marriage |
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| having a negative consequence or performing a negative service by hampering the achievement of group goals or disrupting the balance of the system |
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| data or evidence that can be confirmed by the use of one or more of the human senses |
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| the practice of requiring people to marry within a particular social group |
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| unhappiness or discontent that arises from the belief that something about oneself does not measure up to the level of someone else |
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| a style of loving characterized by an immediate, powerful attraction to the physical appearance of another |
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| concerning or intending to arouse sexual desire |
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| a research technique of describing a social group from the group's point of view |
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| the practice of requiring people to marry outside particular groups |
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| personality traits that encourage nurturing, emotionality, sensitivity, and warmth |
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| extended or multigenerational family |
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| a family consisting of one or both parents, siblings, if any, and other relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins |
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| any relatively stable group of people who are related to one another through blood, marriage, or adoption, or who simply live together, and who provide one another with economic and emotional support |
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| the family into which a person is born and raised |
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| a family that is created when two people marry or enter into an intimate relationship and have or adopt children of their own |
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| having a positive consequence or performing a positive service by promoting the achievement of group goals or helping maintain a system in a balanced state |
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| the socially learned behaviors, attitudes, and expectations associated with being female or male; what we call femininity and masculinity |
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| a pattern of dating that involves women and men meeting in groups playing similar roles in initiating dates, and sharing equally in the cost of activities |
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| an exclusive dating relationship with one partner |
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| a marriage of at least four people, two female and two male, in which each partner is married to all partners of the opposite sex |
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| the distortion of research results that occurs when people modify their behaviors, either deliberately or subconsciously, because they are aware they are being studied |
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| marriage in which the partners are un-like each other in terms of various social and demographic characteristics, such as race, age, religious background, social class, and education |
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| the attraction of people who are alike in terms of various social and demographic characteristics such as race, age, religious background, social class, and education |
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| all persons who occupy a housing unit, such as a house, apartment, single room, or other space intended to be living quarters |
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| marrying upward in social status |
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| marrying downward in social status |
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| statement of a relationship between two or more variables |
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| a set of ideas and beliefs that support the interests of a group in society |
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| a strong attraction to another person based on an idealized picture of that person |
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| patterns of ideas, beliefs, values, and behavior that are built around the basic needs of individuals and society and that persist over time |
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| established laws, customs, and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial inequalities in a society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these practices have racist intentions |
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| personality traits that encourage self-confidence, rationality, competition, and coolness; for example, an orientation to action, achievement, and leadership |
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| a method of collecting data in which a researcher asks subjects a series of questions and records the answers |
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| thoughts and feelings of envy, resentment, and insecurity directed toward someone a person is fearful of losing |
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| relationships resulting from blood, marriage, or adoption, or among people who consider one another family |
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| unintended, unrecognized consequences or effects of any part of a social system or the system as a whole for the maintenance and stability of that system |
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| a positive feeling toward someone that is less intense than love - a feeling typical of friendship in its most simple terms |
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| a style of love characterized by a complete absorption or obsessive preoccupation with and attachment to another person. it is accompanied by extreme emotional highs when the love is reciprocated and lows when it is not |
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| a group of physical, psychological, and behavioral traits that one finds attractive in a mate |
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| a style of loving that is playful, non-possessive - a challenging love, without a deep commitment or lasting emotional involvement |
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| a style of loving that combines eros and ludus, is characterized by obsession and possessiveness. it is a jealous and stressful love that demands constant displays of attention, caring, and affection from the partner. |
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| intended, overt consequences or effects of any part of a social system or the system as a whole for the maintenance and stability of that system |
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| a union between people that unites them sexually, socially, and economically, that is relatively consistent over time, and that accords each person certain agreed-upon rights |
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| phenomenon by which women marry upward in social status and men marry downward in social status. as a result, women at the top and men at the bottom of the social class ladder have a smaller pool of eligible mates to choose from than do members of the other classes |
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| analogy of the commercial marketplace to explain how individuals choose the people they date, mate, live with, and marry by "comparison shopping" and "bargaining for" the mate with the most desirable characteristics |
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| a condition in which one sex has a more limited pool of eligibles from which to choose than the other does. sociologists use the concept to describe the phenomenon of an excess of baby boom women who had reached marriageable age during the 1960s compared with marriage-aged men |
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| the wide range of behaviors and social relationships individuals engage in prior to marriage and that lead to long- or short- term pairing or coupling |
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| kinship or family lineage (descent) and inheritance come through the mother and her blood relatives |
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| family in which a variety of relatives live, not necessarily in the same household, but in very close proximity to one another, interact on a frequent basis, and provide emotional and economic support to each other |
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| exclusivity in an intimate relationship. in marriage, it means marriage to only one person at a time. |
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| a false, fictitious, imaginary, or exaggerated belief about someone or something |
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| cultural guidelines or rules of conduct that direct people to behave in particular ways |
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| a family consisting of a mother and father and their natural or adopted offspring. |
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| a family organized around the principle of male dominance, wherein the male (husband or father) is head of the family and exercises authority and decision-making power over other family members, especially his wife and children |
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| kinship or family lineage (descent) and inheritance come through the father and his blood relatives |
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| a broad explanation of social reality from a particular point of view |
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| a form of marriage in which one female is married to two or more males |
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| a broad category applied to forms of marriage that involve multiple partners. in heterosexual marriage, polygamy involves a person of one sex being married to two or more people of the other sex (either polyandry or polygyny) |
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| a form of marriage in which one male is married to two or more females |
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| people who are potential mates by virtue of birth and societal definition as appropriate or acceptable partners |
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| a style of loving that combines ludus and storge, is logical, sensible, and practical. |
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| proximity, or closeness in time, place and space; an important factor in mate selection |
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| focuses on specific or distinct qualities within the data that show patterns of similarity or differences among the research subjects |
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| a process in which data can be analyzed using numerical categories and statistical techniques (for example, determining the percentage who report certain attitudes or behaviors numerically). |
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| a research method of collecting data in which research subjects read and respond to a set of printed questions |
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| sexual intercourse forced by one person upon another against the person's will' usually perpetrated by a male against a female |
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| the degree to which scientific research measures or instruments yield the same results when repeated by the same researcher or other researchers, or when applied to the same individuals over time or different individuals at one time; consistency in measurement |
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| a set of socially prescribed behaviors associated with a particular status or position in society |
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| a deeply tender or highly intense set of feelings, emotions, and thoughts coupled with sexual passion and erotic expression directed by one person toward another. |
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| a set of procedures intended to ensure accuracy and honesty throughout the research process |
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| research that provides empirical evidence as a basis for knowledge or theories |
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| an ideology or set of beliefs about the inferiority of women and the superiority of men that is used to justify prejudice and discrimination against women. |
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| the number of men to every 100 women in a society or group |
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| a perspective that focuses on the processes by which human beings give meaning to their own behavior and the behavior of others |
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| social construction of reality |
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| the process by which individuals shape or determine reality as they interact with other human beings |
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| a theoretical perspective that adopts an economic model of human behavior based on cost, benefit, and the expectation of reciprocity and that focuses on how people bargain and exchange one thing for another in social relationships |
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| the lifelong process of social interaction through which people learn knowledge, skills, patterns of thinking and behaving, and other elements of a culture that are essential for effective participation in social life. |
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| recurrent, stable, and patterned ways that people relate to one another in a society or group. |
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| a way of looking at the world whereby one sees the relations between and biography within society. |
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| a social position that a person occupies within a group or society |
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| a style of loving that is said to be unexciting and uneventful; an affectionate style of love with an emphasis on companionship |
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| a theoretical perspective that views society as an organized system, analogous to the human system, that is made up of a variety of interrelated parts or structures that work together to generate social stability and maintain society; not a modern theory; focus on gender |
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| a research method in which researchers collect data by asking people questions, for example, using questionnaires or face-to-face interviews |
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| a theoretical perspective that focuses on micropatterns (small-scale) of face-to-face interactions among people in specific settings, such as in marriages and families. |
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| objects, words, sounds, or events that are given particular meaning and are recognized by members of a culture |
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| a set of interrelated statements or propositions constructed to explain some phenomenon. |
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| a minitheory; a set of propositions intended to account for a limited set of facts |
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| feelings of confidence and belief in another person; reliance upon another person to provide for or meet one's needs. |
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| the degree to which scientific research or instruments measure exactly what they are supposed to measure. |
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| a factor or concept whose value changes from one case or observation to another. |
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| a perspective of love developed by social scientist Ira Reiss in which love is viewed in terms of a four-stage, circular progression from rapport through self-revelation, mutual dependence, and personality need-fulfillment as a couple interacts over time. |
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| regulation of sexual behavior, reproduction, social placement,socialization, economic cooperation, care, protection and intimacy |
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| developed concept of sociological imagaination |
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| history, biography and society (social stratification |
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| three main concepts concerning sociological imagination |
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| structural functionalism; conflict theory; symbolic interactionism; social exchange; life course theory (developmental family cycle model); feminist theory |
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| 6 sociological theories that allow us to look at things from different perspectives |
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| government regulates, maintains order, services, etc; religion is the spiritual, moral order, teaching support system |
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| critiques of structural functionalsism |
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father: instrumental
mother: expressive
child: (followers) |
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| roles of family members in structural functionalism |
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| assume power is people's main objective and conflict is the major feature of social life; assumption that equality is the central problem |
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| critiques of conflict theory |
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| tends to ignore objective realities of inequalities (ie, race, class and gender) |
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| critiques of symbolic interactionism |
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| assumes that people are rational and calculating beings who consciously weigh the costs and benefits of their relationships |
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| critique of social-exchange theory |
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1. family formation
2. childbearing families
3. families w preschool children
4. families w school children
5. families with teenagers
6. families with launching centers
7. families in the middle years
8. aging families |
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| stages of life course theory |
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| not all families go through the stages |
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| critique of life course theory |
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| examine ways in which socially constructed categories of sex and gender roles shape relations between men and women in such institutions as politics, the economy, religion, education and the family |
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1. gender is central focus
2. inequality bt. men and women is problematic
3. gender relations (men's power over women) is a social rather than natural factor |
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| perspectives of feminist theories |
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| biased toward the experience of white, middle class, heterosexual women (lack of racial diversity) |
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| critique of feminist theories |
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1. hypothesis
2. create research design
3. collect data
4. support findings |
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| steps of research methods |
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| women's primary love style |
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| feeling at ease or relaxed with one another (Reiss, wtl) |
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| disclosure of personal and intimate feelings (reiss, wtl) |
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| a reliance on each other for fulfillments (reiss, wtl) |
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| fulfillment of personality needs |
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| the ability of each partner to satisfy the needs of the other (reiss, wtl) |
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1. rapport
2. self-revelation
3. mutual dependence
4. need fulfillment |
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| processes of Reiss's Wheel Theory of Love |
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| three main styles of love (Plato) |
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| deep friendship or brotherly love and includes a love for humanity |
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1. care
2. responsibility
3. respect
4. knowledge |
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| Fromm's four essential components of love |
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| we want the best for people we love (fromm) |
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| we are willingly sensitive and responsive to the needs of those we love (fromm) |
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| we accept who we love for what they are (fromm) |
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| we have an awareness of the needs of the people we love, and of their values, goals, and feelings (fromm) |
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