James W Ramey
Biographic Data
| ID | 123573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Ramey |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramey |
| SIGNATURE | RAMEY J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intimate Friendships
Pairing and Parenthood: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family
Legal Regulation of Personal and Family Life Styles
In family life and intimate behavior the effect of many legal regulations is to proscribe life style alternatives which are attractive to a significant number of Americans. Most of our laws penalize those who do not conform to the ideal of the intact monogamous nuclear family. Should we prosecute people for violations that reflect norms that are archaic or are held only by a minority? What is the effect of such regulation on social change? This p…
Alternative life-styles
Intimate Groups and Networks: Frequent Consequence of Sexually Open Marriage
Emerging patterns of behavior in marriage: Deviations or innovations
The mass media are replete with sensational stories of free love, swinging, communes, and group marriages, usually implying ruptured standards, moral decay, and threats to the institution of marriage. Moralists point with alarm to one out of four marriages ending in divorce, freely circulating swinger ad magazines, campus orgies, and flourishing communes. Here is their proof that the minions of hell are fast taking over. Fortunately there is anot…
Emerging Patterns of Innovative Behavior in Marriage
Free love, dyadic marriage with or without nonconsensual adultery, swinging, open marriage, intimate friendship, evolutionary communes, and group marriage are points on a continuum of increasing complexity in interrelationship, free love representing the least complex and group marriage the most complex relationship in which intimacy occurs. The proposed model suggests that these are innovative rather than deviant marriage alternatives, their ant…
Communes, Group Marriage, and the Upper-Middle Class
An analysis of eighty couples' three-year exploration of the feasibility of entering into communal living or group marriage, based on interviews, questionnaires, discussion group notes, correspondence, and anecdotal records. Over 90 per cent of husbands and wives, if employed, were in academic, professional, or managerial positions. Major reasons for wives' involvement: isolation with children, overdependence on husband for adult contact, or unde…
Intimate Groups and Networks: Frequent Consequence of Sexually Open Marriage
Emerging Patterns of Innovative Behavior in Marriage
Free love, dyadic marriage with or without nonconsensual adultery, swinging, open marriage, intimate friendship, evolutionary communes, and group marriage are points on a continuum of increasing complexity in interrelationship, free love representing the least complex and group marriage the most complex relationship in which intimacy occurs. The proposed model suggests that these are innovative rather than deviant marriage alternatives, their ant…
Emerging patterns of behavior in marriage: Deviations or innovations
The mass media are replete with sensational stories of free love, swinging, communes, and group marriages, usually implying ruptured standards, moral decay, and threats to the institution of marriage. Moralists point with alarm to one out of four marriages ending in divorce, freely circulating swinger ad magazines, campus orgies, and flourishing communes. Here is their proof that the minions of hell are fast taking over. Fortunately there is anot…
Communes, Group Marriage, and the Upper-Middle Class
An analysis of eighty couples' three-year exploration of the feasibility of entering into communal living or group marriage, based on interviews, questionnaires, discussion group notes, correspondence, and anecdotal records. Over 90 per cent of husbands and wives, if employed, were in academic, professional, or managerial positions. Major reasons for wives' involvement: isolation with children, overdependence on husband for adult contact, or unde…
Emerging patterns of behavior in marriage: Deviations or innovations
The mass media are replete with sensational stories of free love, swinging, communes, and group marriages, usually implying ruptured standards, moral decay, and threats to the institution of marriage. Moralists point with alarm to one out of four marriages ending in divorce, freely circulating swinger ad magazines, campus orgies, and flourishing communes. Here is their proof that the minions of hell are fast taking over. Fortunately there is anot…
Emerging Patterns of Innovative Behavior in Marriage
Free love, dyadic marriage with or without nonconsensual adultery, swinging, open marriage, intimate friendship, evolutionary communes, and group marriage are points on a continuum of increasing complexity in interrelationship, free love representing the least complex and group marriage the most complex relationship in which intimacy occurs. The proposed model suggests that these are innovative rather than deviant marriage alternatives, their ant…
Communes, Group Marriage, and the Upper-Middle Class
An analysis of eighty couples' three-year exploration of the feasibility of entering into communal living or group marriage, based on interviews, questionnaires, discussion group notes, correspondence, and anecdotal records. Over 90 per cent of husbands and wives, if employed, were in academic, professional, or managerial positions. Major reasons for wives' involvement: isolation with children, overdependence on husband for adult contact, or unde…
Intimate Groups and Networks: Frequent Consequence of Sexually Open Marriage
Legal Regulation of Personal and Family Life Styles
In family life and intimate behavior the effect of many legal regulations is to proscribe life style alternatives which are attractive to a significant number of Americans. Most of our laws penalize those who do not conform to the ideal of the intact monogamous nuclear family. Should we prosecute people for violations that reflect norms that are archaic or are held only by a minority? What is the effect of such regulation on social change? This p…
Alternative life-styles
Intimate Friendships
Pairing and Parenthood: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family
Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works)