7-Gender of Friendship and Dating Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes about the gender dynamics of friendship and dating.

Friendship and Romantic love

All kinds of love that exist between human beings that are outside the family.

Kin

Relation to people, can be biological or adoptive.

Love for friend

The highest form of love in some societies, considered more altruistic and voluntary than other types of love.

Friendship Uniqueness

Two criteria which makes friendship unique and better than other types of relationships: choice and obligation.

Friendship

Voluntary and altruistic; voluntarily chosen may be subject to specific limitations.

Sentiment and sociability

Emotional attachment to our friends and we like spending time with them enjoying their company with no ulterior motive.

Traits of a friend

Trust, honesty, respect, commitment, safety, support, generosity, loyalty, mutuality, constancy, understanding, and acceptance.

Friendship (sociological definition)

A voluntary, informal, and personal relationship according to the common definition in sociological literature.

Boy code

Equates masculinity with being emotionally stoic, invulnerable, physically tough, and independent.

Abstract qualities in friendship

Intimacy, acceptance, trust, and help; wanted by both genders in friendships.

Face-to-face

Describes the degree of conversation and emotional sharing that takes place in women’s friendships.

Side-by-side

Men are side-by-side since they participate in activities together but not necessarily engaging in the kind of conversational intimacy like women.

Hegemonic masculinity

Sets up a bar men must meet to pass a kind of cultural masculinity test; dictates that men be competitive and rational.

Social segregation

Separation of some realm of social life into different groups based on some category.

Residential segregation

The kind of separation in terms of where people live based on race, class, religion, ethnicity.

Second shift

The extra burden experienced by working women at home cooking dinner, doing housework, and taking care of children.

Fictive kin

Friends become fictive kin, or symbolic family members; seen in Latinos and in many Latin American cultures.

Families of choice

The construction of elaborate friendship networks to compensate for the lack of supportive family ties.

Romantic love

An intense attraction in which the love object is idealized, there is an erotic context, and the relationship is expected to be long lasting.

Sexual convergence

The trend for the norms and ideals surrounding women’s sexuality to become increasingly similar to the norms and ideals of men’s sexuality.