Teenage Dating
Directions: You and your group are responsible for reading your assigned section
and completing the tasks below. Work together on all parts of the assignment; do not separate
the work for different individuals. While completing these tasks, you should be able to
answer the following Guiding questions:
1. How did dating develop as a form of social interaction?
It makes men and women able to communicate with each other.
2. Why is it found in industrial and post industrial societies?
It is because young men and women in these societies have less dependent on
their parents.
3. Why not pre-industrial societies? In pre industrial societies, young people have to
live in farms with their parents.
4. What functions does dating fulfill?
Physical needs such as conversation and companionship
Everyone is responsible for completing and submitting this document on the topic’s
page as shown in class.
Dating through the Ages
Read pages 131 to 134 and complete the chart below. Write the main ideas on the left
and write the details and examples on the right. Use the 5WH question words to
complete the details column.
Adolescent Dating
Main Ideas
Details/Examples
Reasons for Dating
Entertainment and amusement
Traditional Dating
Interaction is formal and the relationship centered on the
couple.
Modern Dating
Relationships are based more on friendship and the group
Different Types of
Modern Dating
Either partner can pay for the date.
Both men and women now actively initiate dates.
Causes/Effects of Dating
Directions: Read pages 127 to 129 in the text book and complete the following chart.
You will find five causes that contributed to the development of dating in American
society. List the cause and then explain the effect that this cause had on dating life in
the United States.
Cause
Industrial
Revolution
Effect
It makes people move away from farms and into cities. Therefore,
young adults become less dependent on their parents.
Public
Education
Young men and women can spent some of their day together.
Automobile
It makes young people travel easier than before and have more
chance to meet each other.
Telephone
Young men and women can communicate easily by using telephone.
Equality of
Women
Women can have more roles in society and have more chance for
dating.