PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Longitudinal Study, Civil Marriage, Married People

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

The functions of a wedding ceremony are to create a public acknowledgement of a family as well as a ritual marking a change in status. 75% of marriages in ontario are religious. (the professor thinks that this is a high estimate. ) In canada the only type of legal marriage is monogamy (married to one person at a single time). The civil marriage act defines marriage as the union of two people to the exclusion of all others . Same sex marriage was legalized in canada in 2005, but not until 2015 for the united states. Polygyny is the most common, feminist theory attributes this to a inherently sexist perspective. Polyandry (one woman, many husbands) used to be very common in a tibetan province where in the 1980s 32% of marriages were brothers sharing a wife. In times of economic depression or war there is significantly fewer marriages occurring. After wwii people began to get married again.