Marriage Graphic Organizer by Marcel Ray Duriez

  

Using the three different representations of marriage presented in the learning block (polyandry, arranged marriages, and walking marriages), fill in the graphic organizer below. In Part A, you will have to first identify the biases you have regarding marriage and their influence on your perspective of marriage. In Part B, you will then take an objective stance and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these types of marriage. In Part C, you will create a question a social scientist might ask to further the investigation of marriage. 

  

In this first step, do your best to identify three of your biases on marriage due to your culture and religion. The American culture and legal system generally allow only one type of marriage. What type of bias does this embed in us? The religions that people belong to and practice can also impact their biases toward marriage, depending on how their chosen religion defines marriage.  How does this influence your perspective of marriage in general? How does this bias influence your perspective on these specific types of marriage? 

  

Biases 

    Bias 1:  

You should only be married once to the physique that is your thought soul-mate.    

Bias 2:  

Religion wouldn’t influence my judgment anything, as I do not function or connect with any denomination and faith.  

  

    Bias 3: 

With the biases, we have in the U.S.A most other marriages outside of what we are utilized to would be counted mysteriously and out of the fair.  

Influence of the Biases   

Social Influence, this is 

what we were shown- Religion is educated juvenile and mostly driven by parents onto offspring. Indoctrinating kids into these beliefs would cause them to want to wed someone within their theological convictions. 

In the United States of America, we only marry one body. Monogamous associations.  

Two people usually a gentleman and a gentlewoman. In this realm, it’s further two boys or two girls which are also philosophically, psychologically, and culturally acceptable. You can’t help who you admire. 

  

While it is impossible to “check our culture and biases at the door” and become totally objective, we can identify our biases (as you have already done above) and try to ignore them in order to consider other points of view. In this next step, take a culturally relativistic standpoint (in other words, try to overcome your biases) and consider the tenets of each type of marriage. Why might these other forms of marriage be more successful or advantageous in certain contexts than the Western concept of marriage (based on love and monogamy)? Then, from that same culturally relativistic standpoint, also consider some possible drawbacks to these forms of marriage. 

  

Type of Marriage    Advantages    Drawbacks 

Polyandry  Retains community down Saves food, for in times of disaster With more people in bonds-  

there is a more limited commitment to be prepared.    

Possessiveness Sex catalogs Kids- 

Who does what business when-  Arranged Marriages- 

  

  

 Universal Status of a Family Financial Status of a family-    Do the two people have an exact appreciation for each other? Coupling a newcomer with a promise- Walking Marriages  

  More molecular significance, take care of the house and then go with someone different.    Each family at residence could get suspicious that you are not with them including loving someone different that isn’t your subdivision. 

  

Create a question: In this learning block, you were given a lot of information about marriage and what marriage means in different cultures. You were also asked to think about what marriage means to you. The next step is to take the information you have been given and create a question a social scientist might ask to further the investigation of marriage. For example, after reading about arranged marriages, you might ask: Are rates of depression higher in women in arranged marriages? Social scientists use existing information to come up with new questions. This is the iterative process of social science research. 

  

Will destiny productions in the Himalaya Mountains extend to study polyandry connections to better keep the community furthermore outlay of food remaining utilized in the settlements or order the more modish contemporaries befall within a further established one-man and one-woman variety of nuptials in the eventuality?