6.2 Teenagers and Dating

6.2 Teenagers and Dating

Objectives:

Summarize how dating developed as a form of social interaction.

Describe the functions that dating fulfills.

How to Get a Girl's Attention

Do you agree?

Open Ended

Do you think teens need advice on dating?

Open Ended

Where did you go for your teen dating advice?

Open Ended

Are there formal rules to dating today?

Development of Dating

• Industrial Revolution – people moved from the farms to the cities where young adults could gain more economic freedom and their own home.  

• Public Education – by the 1900s most secondary school students attended coeducational public schools which increased interaction between boys and girls

• Automobile – young adults had more freedom of movement away from parents

• Telephone – young adults could more easily talk to members of the opposite sex

• Equality of Women – more women entered the workforce and took on more active community roles

Functions of Dating

• Serves as a form of entertainment

• Is a means of socialization that teaches people about the opposite sex

• Fills psychological needs such as companionship

• Helps individuals attain status as people are judged in part by whom they date

• Aids in spouse selection

Multiple Choice

The meeting of people as a romantic engagement is known as

• courtship.

• dating

• socialization.

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Which item below did not contrubute to increase in dating

• Cars

• Work

• Fashion

• Schools

Multiple Choice

Dating aids in spouse selection.

• True

• False

Truly Clueless

Not Knowing, Not Understating

Courtship

• First formal idea of dating

• Differs from dating in that courtship's express purpose is eventual marriage.

• Usually arranged

• Carry on family "success"

• A form of homogamy-the social characteristics similar to

  their our.

• Hetrogamy- diffrent social charateristics

Dating Patterns

• Ever since the 1960s patterns have not been formalized.

• No set stages of dating

• Changes?

• Dating based on?????

• Change from Willard Waller's study 1920-30 --> entertainment and social staus

Dating traditional or not?

• Man arranges date

• Dating behavior "rules" well defined

• Certain activities to relieve stress and learn

• Visible sign of commitment

• Today?

• Online, hook ups, FwB,

Researchers found the 'right' amount of time to date before getting married — and it's not as long as you'd think

• A study found that waiting a bit to get married can decrease the likelihood you'll get divorced. 

• Specifically, waiting three years or more decreases the likelihood of divorce by 50%.

• But there's no one-size-fits-all amount of time — couples who waited until they knew each other "very well" had the same outcome. 

• Up to you.

Multiple Choice

____ concluded through research that casual dating was a form of entertainment that had little to do with mate selection.

• Émile Durkheim

• Willard Waller

• John Butler

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Dating behavior has

• Stayed the same

• Been stagnat

• Changed with technology

• Been very formal

Multiple Choice

Since the 1960's it can be said

• That dating is formal

• That dating can be almost anything

• That dating is always evolving

• That dating is only between to parent approved partners

Poll

I understood today's

Objectives:

Summarize how dating developed as a form of social interaction.

Describe the functions that dating fulfills.

• Fully

• Somewhat

• Not at all

Open Ended

I can prove I understood today's objectives by....