SOCI 415 Chapter n/a: Marriage as an Institution Readings
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Journal of marriage and family, 66(4), 848-861. se-a weakening of the social norms that define partners" behavior. First transition: from institutional marriage to companionate marriage. Second transition: to individualized marriage in which emphasis on personal choice and self development expanded. Predicted that over time, as remarriage after divorce was common, norms would emerge and remarriage would become institutionalized with step families. "stalled revolution", women have entered full time labour force, but men have not shifted into female-dominated fields of household labour and childcare. Now growth of cohabitation and more same-sex marriage. Increasing stepfamilies, of women having children, breaking up, then living with another partner. Stage 2: accepted as a testing ground for marriage. Stage 3: becomes acceptable as alternative to marriage. Higher cohabitation in quebec than anywhere else in canada, 84$ women who gave both were cohabiting. More institutionalized, as in us they"re moving toward granting cohabiting couples some rights that married couples have.
