Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing

Type :

Book review

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/27/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Book summary.
1. Sleep as an individual phenomenon.
2. Investigate the social system of couples bed sharing.
Forming the couple system: Learning to share a bed.
1. A fragile stability in the system.
2. A bedtime routine in the privacy of a couple's: Uninfluenced by others.
3. The practice of 'bundling' in Colonial America.
Activities in the transition from awake to sleep.
1. Experiencing bedtime activities that prevent couple from talking.
2. Bed sharing and sexual intercourse as the time in the relationship lengthened.
Talking and touching.
Anger and the couples bed.
Conclusion.
References.

Abstract

"two in a bed: The social system of couple bed sharing" by Paul C. Rosenblatt is a very detailed look at very ordinary human behaviors. bed sharing is so common that Rosenblatt finds that it has been invisible to researchers, and taken for granted by most of the adults who participate in the practice. Rosenblatt believes there is deep meaning in the customs, rituals, and learning necessary to share a bed with another, and that this very intimate and private social system impacts and is impacted by larger social structures.Rosenblatt reviewed the literature of sleep in sociology, psychology, medicine and other disciplines and found that researchers treated sleep as an individual phenomenon, although many adults sleep with a bed partner during much of their lives. Sleep problems were exclusively treated as individual problems in the literature, although the culture abounds with references to sleep being disturbed by a partner who snores, walks or talks in their sleep, or has other sleep disturbances.