Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of the residential segregation of social status groups on the choice of marriage partner in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is suggested that homogamy and propinquity are independent influences on the choice of a spouse, but that segregation does not interact with distance to circumscribe choice. Segregation, nonetheless, appears to be important in its own right as, when degree of homogamy is controlled, there is an overselection of spouses from similar types of residential area. This overselection is much more marked in the case of areas less than 1 Y kilometers distant, which suggests it is because neighborhood organization and self-sufficiency limit contact across socioeconomic divides. This paper investigates the influence of residential segregation on the choice of marriage partner in Christchurch, New Zealand. This is a potentially very significant aspect of the ecological conditioning of social structure, for it is suggested that residential differentiation
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