CYAF 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Common-Law Marriage, Monogamy, Covenant Marriage
24 Apr 2017
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Marriage marketplace: trading "goods" (personality, humor, intelligence, physical attributes) Field of eligibles: those deemed appropriate by cultural standards. Endogamy: rules, norms, social customs and law which dictate marriage to someone who is a member of a group the person belongs (religion, race, caste) Exogamy: rules, norms, social customs, and laws which dictate marriage to someone outside a social group in which a person belongs. Homogamy: personal choice based on similar group characteristics. Heterogamy: personal choice based on different group characteristic"s. Ambivalents: singlehood is temporary and it is voluntary. Not actively seeking: wishfuls: singlehood is temporary but is involuntary. Resolveds: singlehood is permanent and it is voluntary. Stage 1: stimulus -- attracted to other before (very little) interaction. Stage 2: value -- weigh values for compatibility. Stages 2 (value) and 3 (role) reversed for some. Culturally bound-based on culturally speci c values of romance and.
