What factors (e.g., ecological, economic, historical, legal, psychological, and/or sociological) explain the societal attitudes toward polygamy/polyandry and/or polyamory within modern Western societies?
Are these attitudes changing over time? If they are EXPLAIN WHY.
A. Carefully follow these steps:
1. Read and outline the following article available at eReserves iLearn:
Emens, "Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence" from University of Chicago Public Law and Legal TheoryWorking Paper.
2. You will be using Google Scholar for this assignment. Read the entry in Wikipedia about "Google Scholar". This entry will help you understand how Google Scholar works: Read this entry before conducting a search in Google Scholar.
3. Use Google Scholar and locate a primary research article on the topic of polygamy, polyandry and/or polyamory published in the last 10 years in a peer-review journal. The article you locate must be primary (not secondary) research. You will need to read about "primary" research .
4. Choose a "primary" research article that addresses some aspect of polygamy, polyandry and/or polyamory and helps you answer the essay prompt. Visit your Teaching Assistant and/or Dr. Carrington during office hours if you have questions about the article you choose.
B. Essay Prompt:
In order to understand why different sexual cultures, and subcultures, organize their sexual and intimate lives the way they do, it's useful to recognize the economic, ecological, historical, legal, political and sociological contexts that often define, regulate and control what kinds of sexual and intimate behavior will be allowed and/or celebrated and what will not.
This review essay enables students to reflect upon and analyze how our society organizes and regulates our intimate relationships.
Your ‘review essay" should integrate the Emen's essay, a primary research article, and Ryan and Jetha's book Sex at Dawn to answer the following essay questions:What factors (e.g., ecological,economic, historical, legal, psychological, and/or sociological) explain the societal attitudes toward polygamy/polyandry and/or polyamory within modern Western societies?
Are these attitudes changing over time? If they are changing, what social scientific factors are most salient to explaining why attitudes might be changing or if attitudes are not changing, explain why.
In answering the essay prompt above, your essay might also explore the following questions: How does the debate over same-sex marriage influence, and/or mirror, the debates over polygamy, polyandry and polyamory and vice versa?
Explain the various meanings of "monogamy", "non-monogamy", "polygamy" and "polyamory." What does "compulsory monogamy" mean and how is it relevant to explaining attitudes toward polygamy, polyandry and/or polyamory?
Are there particular social characteristics (e.g., class, race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, educational level, age, religion, occupation, etc.) of people that correlate with and possibly explain their attitudes?
Please remember, you are not looking for the ‘right' answer here, but you are making a plausible case for yourself, an informed argument, an argument that reveals that you have read and understand the readings and the arguments within them.
Overview
Write the essay as if you were writing to someone who is literate, but who has never heard the essay prompt or read the book or the article, and you want to explain how the concepts/evidence would help them understand the topic and the questions.
a.). Use a thesis statement in the introductory paragraph to frame the essay. Read up on thesis statements.
2. Application of Course Concepts
a). Compare and contrast the perspective of the articles with one another in how they explain societal and legal approaches to regulating intimate relationships.
b). Apply theoretical perspectives covered in course lectures/readings that would help illuminate the issues addressed by the question.
Please write in gender inclusive language
Please use accurate scientific language to identify sex and gender in the paper. For example, please use ‘human' instead of ‘man' if you mean all hominids. Don't use ‘he' or ‘she' as generic terms. Be cautious about assuming you actually know the sex and/or gender of animals, including humans.
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