Romantic love and marriage

This study examines Horace Miner’s essay “Body Rituals Among the Nacirema. While using the participant observation approach, he gives us a new perspective on the daily behaviors within this group of people. Exploring ethnocentrism and how we view cultures outside of our own.

In “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” Anjula Razdan determines the benefits and disadvantages of both arranged and self-determined marriages. She begins with discussing how arranged marriages were common in many cultures up until the last century and were typically used for political or materialistic gain rather than to affirm the love between two individuals. Razdan questions if society’s transition to marriages based on passion has been beneficial considering both divorce and single adulthood rates increase with every passing year. She uses arguements from Robert Epstein, an editor for Psychology Today and divorced father, to convey the message that arranged marriages “result in an enduring love because they promote compatibility…ahead of

The Uncommon Idea of Love In “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” by Stephanie Coontz, a college professor, author, and historian on the subject of marriage, the history of marriage and the idea of love was discussed. Coontz covered marriage from many times periods and many countries, such as Greece, France, and Chinese. She also touched on the idea of love and marrying because of it. Her main idea was, “But only rarely in history has love been seen as the main reason for getting married” (4).

Romantic love in teens is simply a conventional mismatch of an over exaggerated emotion. To state in pure words, romantic love is a strong feeling of affection, concern, and care towards another person and relationship. It induces many feelings of deep emotional, sexual, and spiritual recognition, as well as many other influential feelings. Different people have different perspectives and thoughts as to what ‘romantic love’ truly is, and whether or not it is simply an overstated infatuation. According to scientists, the ultimate motivation of romantic love is to pass on genetic information to an offspring.

than Americans do. In addition, the authors found cultural differences and cultural similarities among the U.S. Residents, Russians, and Lithuanians. For instance, for the U.S. interviewees friendship and comfort love are important features of romantic love. According to the authors, one of the main purpose of this journal article is to answer the question that romantic love is cultural universal or not based on the data collected from the participants (De Munck, Korotayev, De Munck, & Khaltourina, 2011, p. 27). Indeed, everyone has a different meaning of the term romantic love. Certainly, it is important for couples to talk to each other of ways to overcome any conflicts that may arise in a relationship. People who avoid conflicts by avoiding

After reading the chapter “Romantic Communication in Intimate Relationships: The Romantic Construal Model”, I was left with a lot of new knowledge. The Romantic Construal Model, which identifies how people judge romantic acts via personalization, specialness and conveyed value, is something that I had never heard of before and enjoyed learning about, but like with any new concept I was left with lots of questions as well as relations to other things I have previously learned. For this thought paper my question that I am going to address is why are certain types of communication more valuable to romantic intimate relationships than others?

Most of the time, if not all, the decisions we make concerning marriage are based on the concept of “romantic love”. Most young people tend to believe the only

Sociological perspectives explains love relationships as not perfect but a working progress. A commitment which relies on continuous maintenance and reassurance. Love relationship practices and investments are configured in experiences that will be shared in the past, present and in the future.

Caleb L. Fry and Lauren T. Rios Department of Anthropology Lake Tahoe Community College One College Drive South Lake Tahoe, California 96150 USA Faculty Advisor: Daryl G. Frazetti Abstract

In Katherine Porters “The Necessary Enemy” through her analysis of the modern construct of what some people may call “Romantic love” also provides us with a cursory history of the evolution of marriage throughout the years and its implications as far as couple interactions are concerned. Although she poses the question, her insufficient response still begs for an answer: how did what she called “Romantic love,” possibly find its way into marriage? Porter only begins to describe the present circumstances by differentiating the ideas of accustomed invocation of “hate” and the idealistic “Romantic love” but provides a useful insight into the impeccable nature of humans, we create our own sufferings out the bad experiences we find some semblance

Most people have moved from one place to another, whether it's a house, city or state once in their lives. But there are not many people I knew that have move from one country to another. People immigrate to new countries for multiple reasons! They may need a better life, or they want to pursue their dream job. But this story's focus is on how my family immigrated from one country called Vietnam to the United States.           It was a sunny summer day in 2013. My parents decided that was time to announced the news "Guess what?," my dad said, "We are moving to the U.S.!"I was so happy when I knew! While I was not so verbal about my feelings, my two siblings have a different reaction to this news. My brother was constantly running around the house in circles.

When one looks at romantic love, one would conclude that it is a social dyad that brings about certain responsibilities between two people in a relationship such as honesty, protection, openness and expressions of love. (William, 2008: 76). Contrasting with

The purpose of this essay is to describe my personal experiences during my part on the family assessment and goal planning which was the section pertaining to me specifically. Additionally, I will reflect over the family experience as opposed to the Dyad. I will analyze my expectations of the assignment prior to starting it and my perception after finalizing it. I will touch base on my experience while role-playing as both part of the family and as the social worker portion of the experience. Lastly, I will summarize my strengths and weaknesses and the areas of growth I identify that I need to develop as I see it fit to my professional growth.

Conversely, most people perceive marriage as a sanctuary, satisfying the needs of both partners involved. It is one of the most important institutions affecting people’s health and well-being. Firstly, a strong marriage has a dramatic effect on the partners’

The book has been written when the anthropology field is undergoing critical technological advancement. It is aimed at reaching generations that are experiencing problems with self-identification, power and over-ambitious objectives. This post-modern anthropology insists that the outside is of importance just like the inside (Strathern 1988:65). The foreign culture in the report has been disregarded due to lack of proper authenticity and instead the ethnography front page space has been taken over by the backstage field workers and self-questioning commentary.