Social aspects of jealousy


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Middle East

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North America

The sociology of jealousy deals with cultural together with social factors that influence what causes jealousy, how jealousy is expressed, in addition to how attitudes toward jealousy modify over time.

Anthropologists such(a) as Margaret Mead clear shown that jealousy varies across cultures.[] Cultural learning can influence a situations that trigger jealousy and the generation in which ]

Changes in attitudes


By the behind 1960s and the 1970s, jealousy — particularly sexual jealousy — had come to be seen as both irrational and shameful in some quarters, especially among advocates of ] Some studiesthat jealousy may be reduced in multilateral relationships where there is a realize hierarchy of relationships or where expectations are otherwise fixed. See Smith and Smith, Beyond Monogamy. sophisticated practitioners of what is now called ] In mainstream society, although jealousy still carries connotations of insecurity, there is a greater tendency to accept it as a normal and expected reaction to a relationship threat.