SOCC29H3 Chapter Notes -Ulama, Social Stratification, Social Practice

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Different economic/political circumstances give rise to different social and marriage practices. The various aspects of marriage lie at the heart of power relations within family as well as relations between the family and wider society. Differences in marriage practice reflect much broader divergences in the economic, political, and social role of the family, and which carry different implications for the position/power of women. The amount and form of the mahr could also symbolize and actualize political and economic ties between the families of the bride and the groom. The familial desire to control marriage arrangements wali , father or marriage guardian. Marriages could also be arranged whenever it most suited the political, material or social needs of the family. The mahrs assigned to minors were among the highest given within each social group. Intermarrying in classes (i. e. ulama merchant family who creates a stable middle class rather incestuous character) reasons. Cousin marriages in upper classes for economic and political.

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