Lone Star Sociology of Families Companionate and Individualized Marriages Paper

Read pp. 82 – 84 in Sociology of Families on companionate and individualized marriage, and read “Grounds for Marriage” (a link to this reading is located below the link to the instructions).
Then address the following:
• How is companionate marriage different from individualized marriage?
• Select at least two of the following sections from “Grounds for Marriage”, and summarize what you saw as the main points from each: For Better and for Worse Tolstoy Was Wrong: Happy Marriages are Not All Alike Marriage is Movie, Not a Snapshot The Critical Events of a Marriage May Not Be Inside the Marriage
• Do any couples you know reflect some these trends in marriage? If you prefer, you can think about TV, movie, or celebrity couples and how they reflect this information.

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