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Gloria's Final Project Chapter 10: Families

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Gloria's Final Project Chapter 10: Families

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Main Points
1What can Contribute to Marital Happiness?
2.How The Three Sociological Perspectives view chapter 10?
3.Violence:Within Families

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 What can Contribute to marital happiness:

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 What can Contribute to marital happiness:

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"an excess of positive interactions over negative interactions:
Thoughtful friendliness: Touching, smiling, and paying compliments. (256)Negative include: "igniting, criticizing, and calling names." (256)

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*Functionalist:Traditional Western sexual norms...that people engage in sex only with their spouses..."(255). Nevertheless, this benefits the marriage, in regards to fidelity and commitment.

*Conflict:In contrast with the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective shows the negative side of the family. "a powerful source not to just love and care but also of pain and conflict." In most families..conflict and violence...anger..." (256)

*Symbolic Interaction: What the most important issues, including how interactions are in society within a marriage. For example, regarding the relationship between spouses, between a parent and a child, one sibling to another, the symbolic interactionist perspective can be used, "as a guide, researchers can focus on any of these interactionsignals and learn how they affect the group." (256)

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*As stated in the text, among the families in which violence happens, is at minimum once each year in the U.S. As stated in the text, "from 10 to 20 percent,...25 and 50 percent couples have been estimated to experience serious family violence at least once during their ...marriage (261)."

*"most violent married individuals have, as children, seen their parents hit their each other." Furthermore, while I believe that this does not justify violence, this is an example of mistreatment among couples/parents that children show their children(261).

*Acceptance of violence out of fear of the unknown, they have chosen to remain in their abusive situation ( lack of education) and/or little to no job skills. For instance, a person (perhaps a spouse and /or a family member:child/sibling may get used to being abused or witnessing the violence in the home that they are in.

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Chapter10: Families