SOCI 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Covenant Marriage, Assortative Mating, Normative Social Influence
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Exogenous payoff by marrying social approval received by following norm. Commitment device promote relationship-specific investments (buying a home) Signalling device tells the world i love you. Historically people married not for love but political/economic reasons; love comes after marriage. Now people marry for religious reasons, emotional security, companionship, want of a child, intense physical attraction. Rate of married couples with kids is decreasing, while rate of cohabiting couples has been increasing. Crude marriage rate number of marriages for every 1000 people in a given year. Problem: but the sample includes unmarriageable people like kids. General marriage rate number of people in a population eligible for marriage and restricts the denominator to unmarried women age 15+ Gets around the crude marriage rate problem. Total first marriage rate the percentage of individuals who can expect to marry before age 50. 1981 65% could expect to marry at least once before 50. 2004 46% for women and 44% for men.
