User:Matthew M/Week 10 - Relationships

Week 10 - 23/09/08 – Relationships
The topics which were explored in this week were interesting and spoke of topics such as the need to belong, attraction, relationships and love. It seemed to be about things which every person will have to deal with at some point in their life. People are always wishing to belong and the term social acceptance seems to perfectly fit this wish. This term mean getting other people to like, respect, approve and want to have some form of relationship with you. An interesting theory which I found week was the social exchange theory. The belief that weighs social behaviour through costs and benefits of interaction such as the assumption that sex is a resource that women have and men want. In this theory it states that men try to provide resources such as money, attention, and respect or love in order to gain sex. This theory merely places an economic perspective on sex with a women’s sexuality as the supply and the men’s sexuality being the demand. The main idea here is that relationships are like an investment where we generally put the most effort into social situations where there is the probability of maximal benefits and minimal costs.