Define "intimacy."

What will be an ideal response?


Intimacy refers to loving relationships characterized by feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness.

Sociology

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Women trying to move up in their field often hit a "__________," a barrier beyond which they cannot go, despite the fact that they can see others above them

Fill in the blank with correct word

Sociology

Under couverture family law in the United States

a. married women owned only the property they brought into the marriage but did not accumulate rights to property the couple accumulated in the marriage. b. married couples held equal rights to all property each brought into the marriage or accumulated in the marriage. c. married women could not own property and their legal existence was suspended having been incorporated into that of their husbands. d. married couples each maintained separate ownership of the property they each respectively brought into the marriage and shared equally any property accumulated during the marriage.

Sociology

A norm of the Catholic Church has long required that priests and nuns should not be distracted from their devotion to God by physical relationships and therefore should remain celibate. This is an example of what kind of function?

a. latent function b. manifest function c. unintended function d. dysfunction

Sociology

Ira Reiss (Reiss and Lee 1988) characterized the development of love in terms of four separate but interrelated processes. Identify a true statement about these processes.

A. Self-disclosure leads to mutual dependency. B. Mutual dependency leads to the fulfillment of one's intimacy needs. C. Increasing self-disclosure is a characteristic of a developing intimacy. D. All of these answers are correct.

Sociology