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Sacrifices, 65 -66, 75 -76

Salaries. See Pay

"Satisfaction," marital, 133

Scott, Joan W., 194 n.12

Secular philosophy, and marriage commitment, 140

Sedgwick, Catherine, 26

Self, social psychology of, 99 , 100 , 110

Self-awareness, 6 , 10 , 15 , 105 , 157

Self-consciousness, 6 , 7 , 9 , 22 -23, 26 -27

Self-development, 9 , 105 -7

Self-disclosure: limits on, 98 , 99;

marital, 111;

in men's friendships, 99 , 100 , 154;

in women's friendships, 64 , 66 , 76 -84;

passim, 89 , 98 , 99 , 152 , 161 -62. See also Intimacy; Talk

Self-exploration, 7 , 9 , 10 -11, 23 , 105 -6

Self-expression, 10 , 23 . See also Emotional expression; Talk

Self-interest, 6 , 7 , 9 , 13

Senchak, Marilyn, 143

Sentiment: in friendship, 24;

history of marriage, 13 -22;

in kinship, 24;

man of, 9 , 11;

woman of, 11 . See also Affective individualism; Feeling

Separate spheres, 8 -13, 17 , 18 , 29 , 36 , 41 -44. See also Private sphere; Public sphere; "Women's sphere"

Separate together, unique marriage value of, 51 -52

Sex: interviewing about, 172;

right to refuse, 12;

talk about, 69 , 70

Sexual identity. See Gender

Shopping, 24 -25, 38 , 42 -43, 44

Shorter, Edward, 4 , 19 -20, 194 n. 12, 196 n.38

Similarity, of friends, 84 -89

Simmel, Georg, 9 , 18 n, 61 , 97 , 98 -99, 100 , 110 , 112 -13, 119 -20

Single women, 13 , 16 , 68 , 103 , 118 , 146 -47, 166 -67. See also Divorce

Sisters, as best friends, 78 -79, 101 , 172

Situation management, 124 , 128 -29, 133

Smelser, Neil, 193 n.4

Smith, Daniel Scott, 12

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 27

"Snowball" sample, 174 -75

Sociability: "back stage" of, 51 -52;

female public, 24 -25;

friendships of, 167;

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male public, 13 , 24 , 89 , 154;

urban, 24 -25

Social control: in collective marriage work, 144 -45;

and community moral constraint, 159 -60. See also Constraints; Moral constraint

Social psychology: of friendship, 98 -99;

of self, 99 , 100 , 110

Social services, state, 24

Sociology: of community, xii , xiii , xiv , 1 , 2 , 3 -4, 32 , 158 -59;

of family/marriage, xiii -xiv, 1 -5, 30 , 33 , 133;

of friendship, 30 -31, 61;

of gender, xiii

Solomon, Beth, 143

Sorokin, Pitirim, 2

Sports, 89

Stack, Carol, 67 -68

Standards of commitment, 62 , 63 -68, 84 , 88 , 89 , 96 , 111

Standards of equivalency, 62

Standards of exchange, 62 , 63 . See also Standards of commitment

State: centralizing national, 7 -8;

social services of, 24

Status, of marriage, 49 , 50 , 52

Stone, Lawrence, 5 -7, 15 , 24 , 196 n.38

Stowe, Steven, 17 -18

Stratification. See Gender stratification; Middle class; Upper class; Working class

Subjectivity, "cult of," 28

Survival needs: and friendship exchanges, 67 -88. See also Economic support

Survival standard, xv;

for marriage, 55 , 59

Symmetry: in friendship, 88 , 111 , 129;

in marriage, 19 -20, 21 -22, 143 -44. See also Asymmetries


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