Understudied Relationships (WJEC)
- Created by: Steph Riddle
- Created on: 16-06-13 16:35
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- Understudied Relationships
- Gay & Lesbian Relationships
- Formation: difficult to recognize another and form a relationship. Women tend to be reactive and wait for the other to ask them out
- Davidson: Gay men seek physically attractive features and a status symbol such as a well paid career
- Huston & Swartz: Lesbians are attracted to personality
- Maintenance:
- Lesbians maintain a balance of power and use conversational techniques to create inatmacy
- Gay men minimise conflict and show high levels of affection for one another and challenge their partner
- Difficulties:
- Homosexuals don't differ in appearance so people assume they're straight and allows them to conceal their identity
- Greene: Gay people with previous heterosexual partners with custody of a child may get their visitational rights taken away if their new sexuality is revealed
- Difficulties forming and maintaining relationships
- Growing up in a society where homosexuality is seen as wrong makes it difficult to 'come out' and form relationships
- The media presents homosexual relationships as superficial, unstable and problematic with very few portrayed as successful
- Markowitz & Peplan; Highlights that many therapists use heterosexual models on homosexuals during counseling sessions
- Formation: difficult to recognize another and form a relationship. Women tend to be reactive and wait for the other to ask them out
- Computer Relationships
- Computer Mediated Communications (CMC): genuinely seen as inferior form of communication as it offers fewer cues to work with when developing a relationship
- Reduced Cues Theory: Culman & Markus (1987):
- CMC filters out important aspects of communication such as body language
- Reduces cues in individualization and undermines social and normative influences
- May feel less connected to an interaction and less concerned about their detachment from it
- Reduced Cues Theory: Culman & Markus (1987):
- Social Identity Model of Deindividation Effects (SIDE)
- Alternative ideas to CMC and Reduced Cues Theory
- Allows individuals to be freed from social restraints leading to anti-normative behaviour
- Argues that CMC reinforces existing social boundaries
- Proposes that a social identity is created when people belong to a group that are anonymous
- Alternative ideas to CMC and Reduced Cues Theory
- Computer Mediated Communications (CMC): genuinely seen as inferior form of communication as it offers fewer cues to work with when developing a relationship
- Gay & Lesbian Relationships
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