Power, Control, And Equality Within Relationships

Devon Blackhawk is unsure how to advance his relationship with Page Vandeman. Every time he tries to get close, Page withdraws. He’s sure that the physical attraction he feels is reciprocated, so why is she giving the hands off signals. And, what is he going to do about breaking down the barriers.

Abby Scheer and I have known each other since 6th grade, but started to become best friends at the end of 7th grade and through 8th grade. I can trust Abby and talk to her about anything and everything.

Respect: You have the right to decide when you go to bed, rise in the morning, and eat your meals.

The "rules of relationships" included: autonomy, similarity, supportiveness, openness, fidelity, togetherness, equity, and magic. Autonomy, mentioned by 37% of the essays, refers to letting one's partner have a life outside of one's relationship. Similarity, mentioned by 30% of the essays, refers to being interested in similar things as one's partner. Supportiveness, mentioned by 27% of the essays, refers to cheering on one's partner. Openness, mentioned by 22% of the essays, refers to sharing oneself with one's partner.Fidelity, mentioned by 17% of the essays, refers to staying committed to one's partner. Togetherness, mentioned in 16% of the essays, refers to spending enough quality time with one's partner. Equity, mentioned by 12% of the

To begin, I met Oniqa about 5 years ago during my freshman year of high school. It was our first class of Physical Education in the gym playing volleyball. After some instructions from our teacher broke the class up into partners, and surprise my partner was Oniqa. Both of us were extremely shy, quiet, and didn’t talk much during the 45 minutes we spent hitting a ball back and forth. Luckily our friendship didn’t with second period PE. With time we became good friends. In reality, the first day we met wasn’t the start to the typical friendship. Looking back, we were an unlikely pairing that without realizing it had many similarities and experiences. Despite our somewhat awkward first encounter, the following years spent getting to know each other better I learned she was a lot more than a shy girl in my PE class.

In present-day society, humans are judged by the items they own. Ownership is defined as the objects that can destroy character. People tend to judge others for the objects they do have and they do not have. I agree with Plato and his idea that objects are detrimental to a person's character. Because people choose to look at items that do not matter, it is affecting relationships, the way people see themselves, and how much people are willing to work when they want to achieve a goal.

Gender roles and power dynamics have been a topic of great debate in regards to their portrayal in horror films. Over time, the horror genre’s boundaries, as well as ideas of gender roles, have become less strictly defined and many see this as being observable by looking at films from different points in time. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) are both horror films which feature gender roles in different ways, although there are also similarities. The use of gender roles and their representation can be said to evolve over time as society’s views of gender roles also changed. There is a noticeable focus on sexual desires in both films, which relates to the role of sexuality in people’s views of

People are equally concerned about minimizing costs while receiving maximum outcomes, and advocating social justice as to take compromises insofar as others would do the same for them. That is, in close relationships, we assess the ratio of our own and our partner’s inputs and outcomes. We become most satisfied in equitable affairs where we give as much as we take, but willingly receive or invest more than usual because we and our partners would certainly seek opportunities in the future to set the balance right again. However, when we perceive that we are being chronically indulged or underserved, we experience negative affect as guilt and disappointment, respectively. To regain a sense of equity, we may take actions to restore balance, distort our perception to convince ourselves that

In 1991, Stafford and Canary used equity theory to explain the idea of their typology of relational maintenance strategies. They hypothesized that couples in equitable relationships use more relational maintenance behaviors and the uses of these behaviors affect the couples’ satisfaction (Dainton, M., 2000; Canary, D, J., & Stafford, L., 1992). Stafford and Canary ask people about what “interactional behaviors” they use with their partner to have a successful relationship (Weige, D. J., & Ballard-Reisch, D. S., 1999). A factor analysis found a “correlation between the use of their five strategies [relational maintenance behaviors which are positivity, openness, assurances, networks, and sharing tasks] and [relationship] satisfaction” (as cited

In discussion to the “power to”, it refers to skills and abilities, and implies a kind of freedom (Lebeuf & Mclean, 1997). The term “power over”, which is more of a domination type of power (Lebeuf & Mclean, 1997). These to relate to one another by the “power to” being dominate in attributes causes a person to be “power over” other people in a dominate way. Because of this a person must be “power to” in order to have “power over” (Lebeuf & Mclean, 1997). This raises the question of whether or not sex has power and what sex is the dominate power? Traditionally men have dominated their power over females and males have asserted themselves as the empowered dominant sex. In result of this women were originally forced into the

Respect. Something our world would be chaotic without. Even though not everyone gives respect vividly, I think our community has enough to get by.

In this reflection journal I will be discussing Ata- growing respectful relationship theory, which I chose to use for Kate’s case study, and Ecological systems theory, which was used for Hone’s case study. I will further reflect on the appropriateness of the two theories in relation to these given case studies. Lastly I will look at the application of these theoretical frameworks.

Power, authority, and equality are all challenging and effortful goals that women continually fight for in many different societies. The progression of those goals are continuously improving, but there is still a separation between the power, authority, and equality granted to men and women. There are multiple different ways and methods used by feminist in their attempts to gain power, authority, and equality in all aspects of life. These aspects that feminist strive to improve are made possible by an organization called Brigid’s Place. Brigid’s Place garners power, authority, and equality for women through its spiritually involved ministries that include transitional programs for women. The transitional programs help many different women

Throughout life almost everyone wants to be or is in a romantic relationship. There is always the hope that one day you will find that person that you want to be with and possibly spend the rest of your life with. The thought of finding that one person who complements you in numerous ways is thrilling for most people. However, people do not realize all of the work a relationship takes nor how many different factors can play a part in a relationship; how you were raised and what gender you are can dictate how attached you can be during any form of relationship.

Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian, social theorist, philologist and literary critic whose work had a tremendous impact on several disciplines. He was not a sociologist by training, but he worked diligently on sociological issues and otherwise had significant influence on the work of other sociologists. One of his most famous works is the The History of Sexuality, in which he examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life. According to Foucault, the idea that everyone has a sexuality is relatively a recent development in the West. In Volume 1, Foucault discusses the relationship between sex and power in a historical context. He states that the ways in which humans think about sexuality is primarily shaped by the "repressive hypothesis," which claims that Western society had suppressed sexuality from the 17th to the mid-20th century, and this was due to the rise of capitalism and the bourgeois society. There are several key concepts in this book that will be discussed in this paper include repressive hypothesis, sexuality, power, and discourse. This paper will seek to show the ways in which sexuality is a discursive object, and how sexuality was linked to power throughout history.