{"id":383,"date":"2010-07-15T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=383"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:54:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:54:38","slug":"love-marriage-iii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/07\/15\/love-marriage-iii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love &amp; Marriage III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third (and final!) set of ideas for using Hull, Meier and Ortyl&#8217;s piece\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage&#8221; <\/strong>(Spring 2010 issue) from the authors!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Paul Papadimitriou on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28883070@N02\/4792926211\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4792926211_0eb0742a76.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bouquet\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exercise #1:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have students answer the relationship values questions (which they used for their research published in Journal of Marriage and Family) as a learning exercise;\u00a0perhaps in advance of the assigned reading so they are not biased by having read the article, and then compare the students&#8217; responses to the findings in their JMF article as a jumping-off point for class discussion of relationship values\/attitudes, where they come from, whether\/why they differ by gender, SES, sexual orientation, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;How important do you think each of the following elements is for a successful marriage or serious committed relationship?&#8221;\u00a0 (using a 1=&#8221;not important&#8221; to 10=&#8221;extremely important&#8221; scale)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 1)\u00a0 Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 2)\u00a0 Faithfulness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3)\u00a0 Life-long commitment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 4) \u00a0Financial security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Being of the same race<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exercise #2:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The article talks broadly about <strong>romantic v. confluent love<\/strong>. Students could debate which of these two models is more relevant today and\/or which pieces of each model they like\/don&#8217;t like and why.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>romantic love model<\/strong>, Swidler&#8217;s four features (or myths) could be discussed:<\/p>\n<p>1) one true love<br \/>\n2) love at first sight<br \/>\n3) love conquers all<br \/>\n4) happily ever after<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>confluent model<\/strong>, Gidden&#8217;s ideas include these features:<\/p>\n<p>1) relationship contingent on satisfaction of both partners<br \/>\n2)\u00a0lots of communication\/negotiation<br \/>\n3) overarching goal of self-development<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third (and final!) set of ideas for using Hull, Meier and Ortyl&#8217;s piece\u00a0&#8220;The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage&#8221; (Spring 2010 issue) from the authors! Exercise #1: Have students answer the relationship values questions (which they used for their research published in Journal of Marriage and Family) as a learning exercise;\u00a0perhaps in advance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[70,55,320,837],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-family","tag-gender","tag-marriage","tag-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}