Concepts: Monogamy, Second Shift Including myself, my family and friends practices monogamy. Most of my family members and friends are not even aware that they practice monogamy. To them, it is all they know and are accustomed to. They do not even consider other practices like polygamy or polyandry; probably because it was never exposed to them. According to Dalton Conley (2015), monogamy is “the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time” (p. 372). In other words, only having one wife or husband. I believe the majority of people only have one spouse at a time, and the majority of those people do not realize they are practicing monogamy. In my sociological point of view, there are different reasons for practicing monogamy. I practice monogamy and the reason is because I only want one significant other in my life to be my other half. Some people are only exposed to monogamy so the thought of having more than one spouse probably rarely comes to their minds.
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For some people, they practice monogamy because of their culture. Having multiple spouses is probably forbidden in their culture. Monogamy is probably the most common social structure in the United States. For decades, mothers have been known as the spouse who is the house worker. It was traditional back in the day for mothers to be the ones who take care of the house and the children. That tradition went on for so long that even today some people still believe a mother’s job is to raise the children and do chores, whether they have another job or not. Arlie Hochschild called this belief or job, second shift. According to Dalton Conley (2015), the second shift means “women’s responsibility for housework and child care – everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading
For some people, they practice monogamy because of their culture. Having multiple spouses is probably forbidden in their culture. Monogamy is probably the most common social structure in the United States. For decades, mothers have been known as the spouse who is the house worker. It was traditional back in the day for mothers to be the ones who take care of the house and the children. That tradition went on for so long that even today some people still believe a mother’s job is to raise the children and do chores, whether they have another job or not. Arlie Hochschild called this belief or job, second shift. According to Dalton Conley (2015), the second shift means “women’s responsibility for housework and child care – everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading