SOCI 1010 Chapter Notes -Nuclear Family, Welfare Dependency, Parental Leave
5 Apr 2014
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In this reading, brym and lie bring up the idea of marriage and state that marriages used to be arranged by third parties and love was not the primary aspect one looked for before setting up these arranged marriages. One needed to learn to love while being forced to as arranged by relatives. These selections were based mainly on calculations intended to increase their families" prestige, economic benefits, and political advantages. Now, with love" being the most important aspect in marriage, it has been termed to be the essential basis for marriage. Brym and lie suggest that there are three sets of social forces that influence whom one is likely to fall in love with and marry. The first being marriage resource, the second being third parties, and the third social force is the demographic and compositional factors which state that the probability of marrying inside your group increases with the group"s size and geographical concentration.
