Title: DB - Theoretical Perspectives on Sexuality
Course: SOC 130 RTZ > Section: Week 2

Please follow directions on How to respond to Assignments and Discussion Boards (this is a DB). And respond to the following.

Part One: Explaining premarital intercourse. Compare and contrast how a sociobiologist, a psychoanalyst, and a sociologist would explain why people engage in premarital intercourse. What does each perspective identify as the critical factors? How would each perspective approach the problems associated with premarital sex?

Part Two: Gender schema theory. Define and describe psychologist Sandra Bem’s gender schema theory. What is a schema? What does Bem’s theory suggest about the difficulty of unlearning stereotypes?

Part Three: What is the message of this chapter? Please describe, as you best can, the purpose of this chapter for all of our future learning in this class.