Choice Of Marriage Partner Research Articles

Language integration: results of an inter generational analysis

The two decades between 1971 and 1991 witnessed remarkable changes in the source countries for immigration to Canada, adding to the ethnic diversity of the nation. Traditional Euro­ pean sources of immigrants gave way to more newcomers from Asian and Latin American coun­ tries, with many coming from China, Hong Kong, India and the Caribbean. In addition, there was a significant change in the choice of marriage partners, with an increasing tendency of Canadians to choose mates who differ from themselves across many social dimensions. This paper sheds light on the process of language integration in the context of these changing social phenomena. The passing of languages to the next generation is analysed for the major non-official language groups in Canada. Languages of early immigration to Canada have a low tendency to be passed to the children as mother tongue, and the children often have little knowledge of these languages. For example, an analysis of children with at least one German mother tongue parent shows that 10% have German mother tongue and 23% speak German well enough to conduct a conversation. On the other hand, languages of recent immigrants are often passed to the children as mother tongue. Fully 70% of the children with at least one Chinese mother tongue parent have the same mother tongue and 82% can speak Chinese well enough to conduct a conversation. Rates of exogamy and language continuity are combined to show the close relationship between these two phenomena. Rates of exogamy are high and language persistence is low for languages such as German, Ukrainian and Dutch which are associated with early immigration to Canada. By contrast, rates of exogamy are low and language persistence is high for languages of recent immi­ gration such as Chinese, Punjabi and Spanish. The nature of exogamy is also quite different for recent immigrant groups. The mixed unions of older immigrant groups are much more likely to involve an English mother tongue spouse. The general pattern of difference between language groups even holds when exogamous and endogamous couples are analysed separately. Children of mixed parentage, like those that have parents with similar linguistic backgrounds, involving a Punjabi, Chinese, or Spanish mother tongue parent, are more likely to have the heritage language as mother tongue and are more likely to know the heritage language.

Gesinsteorie in Suid-Afrika: blanke gesinne

Abstract Family theory in South Africa: white families. Family life has been researched since the establishment of the social sciences at South African universities. Most of the research was done on the family life of the whites (by sociologists and psychologists) and on the family life of the blacks (by anthropologists). During the last two to three decades in particular the research with regard to the family life of these two population groups has been done from two different perspectives: that on the blacks from a more critical perspective, and that on the whites from a more positivistic systems perspective. Research on white families was done on a descriptive as well as an analytic level. On the descriptive level attention was paid to family structure, marital pathways, choice of marriage partner, the one-parent family and various aspects of the dual-income family. On the analytic level scales were developed to measure variables such as family integration, commitment to marriage, perception of the att...

Differences in Number of Siblings and Choice of Marriage Partners

For a sample of 90 persons, all from Essen, with the help of a questionnaire whether the difference in the number of siblings of spouses correlates with self-rated marital satisfaction was examined. This was confirmed for the husbands. Differences in sibling numbers for couples also correlate positively with the significance of sexuality in a relationship and negatively with the declaration of risks of childbirth.

The Minician Law: Marriage and the Roman Citizenship

THE HISTORY OF THE LAW governing the marriage of Roman citizens and non-Romans is readily reconstructed, not much affected by the Justinianic reworking and redaction of many legal texts and the loss of much juristic writing. It betrays the complexity of the Roman law of marriage. At its heart was the Minician law, the terms of which are explicitly attested, though not much canvassed.1 Enacted probably sometime before the Social War, the law seems never to have been abrogated. And changes in it can be dated. It is a record mainly of exclusionism, and one of consequence to the larger history of the Roman family, to patterns of inheritance, for example, perhaps to choice of marriage partner.

Sex differences in sexuality among medical students: Effects of increasing socioeconomic status

Research has consistently shown that, compared to men, women are more cautious and selective and maintain greater marital aspirations in entering and maintaining sexual relationships. One explanation of this sex difference is that women have traditionally had inferior access to earning power and social status and consequently were forced to acquire socioeconomic status (SES) through their choice of marriage partners. A contrasting view is that this difference is a component of the basic sex difference identified in the Kinsey studies: Men are more likely than women to dissociate coitus from emotional attachment and to desire and seek coitus with a variety of partners. These two explanations were explored in open-ended interviews with matched samples of 20 male and 20 female medical students. The results were more consistent with the perspective of basic sex differences than with the differential resources explanation. Increasing female SES does not appear to eliminate or even substantially reduce this sex difference. Increasing SES tends to enlarge the pool of acceptable, available sexual and marital partners for men while it tends to reduce the pool for women. Increasing SES thus tends to have different effects on men and women and may cause sex differences in the tendency to associate coitus with emotional attachments and marital aspirations to be more, rather than less, apparent. Extensive case data with verbatim quotations are presented to reveal the emotions and desires underlying subjects' overt behavior.

Dublin: The Deposed Capital; A Social and Economic History, 1860-1914

This is a comprehensive study of the problems which the city of Dublin faced between the famine and World War One. The decline of the city's traditional industries and the rising proportion of casual labourers in the population gave rise to intense poverty which resulted in excessively high death-rates and a housing crisis. These problems were compounded by the migration of the middle-classes to the suburbs where they established autonomous self-governing townships which failed to contribute to city taxes. The alienation of the Protestant middle-class and the growing political dominance by lower middle-class Catholics - many of them slum landlords - who attributed all social and economic ills to the Act of Union, weakened the resolve to tackle the city's major ills. However it seems doubtful whether the problems of the Dublin labouring class could have been resolved within the accepted limitations of state intervention as they existed prior to World war One. The work draws on a wealth of sources to examine topics such as choice of marriage partners, occupational continuity between father and son, the background of tenement families and the corporation tenants, and the role of contemporary charitable institutions - topics hitherto relatively neglected in Irish historical research.

The Great Families of Mexico: Elite Maintenance and Business Practices in Late Colonial Mexico City

O UR conception of composition of elite in late colonial period, its modes of recruitment and replacement, and its business and marriage patterns, greatly influences our understanding of social, economic, and political processes of Latin America during Bourbon era. In this article, I wish to describe social and business behavior of pinnacle of Mexico City's society in era 1750-1821-of section of society I term the Great so as to differentiate them from other well-to-do and respectable families of city who, though members of a broader elite, could not normally compete with or marry into this exalted group. The distinctions that separated Great Families from other elements of upper class in Mexico City were their unparalleled wealth, diversity of their holdings and investments, success of their business practices, honors that they received, their ability to place their children in upper ranks of civil and ecclesiastical administrations, their close alliances with other leading political and clerical figures, their choice of marriage partners, and, as a culmination of all of these other factors, their longevity at summit of social hierarchy. The Great Families shared no corporate or institutional structure; they did not all belong to a single organization, nor did they collectively enjoy a distinctive title, form of address, or profession that distinguished them. They were defined by their social and economic behavior, their business and personal associations, and their success. The above characteristics differentiated this group from others in this society, but they should not be

The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China

List of tables List of figures romanisation and weights and measures Glossary 1. Introduction 2. The initiation of negotiations 3. Pre-marital ritual forms 4. Age at marriage 5. Choice of marriage partner 6. The ceremonial of marriage 7. The 'modernisation' of marriage and kinship structures 8. Marriage and the domestic group 9. Marriage and primary groups 10. Conclusions List of abbreviations Bibliography Index.

A Contribution to the Debate on Homogamy, Propinquity, and Segregation

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

The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China.

List of tables List of figures romanisation and weights and measures Glossary 1. Introduction 2. The initiation of negotiations 3. Pre-marital ritual forms 4. Age at marriage 5. Choice of marriage partner 6. The ceremonial of marriage 7. The 'modernisation' of marriage and kinship structures 8. Marriage and the domestic group 9. Marriage and primary groups 10. Conclusions List of abbreviations Bibliography Index.

A discrete-time two-sex age-specific stochastic population program incorporating marriage

Abstract A discrete-time two-sex stochastic population model is developed. All entities (single males, single females, or couples) are grouped according to their ages, and during a unit time interval, each entity has a choice of several outcomes with fixed conditional probabilities. The model assumes that the number of marriages between men aged x and women aged y is equal to the minimum of the number of men aged x desiring marriage with a woman aged y and the number of women aged y desiring marriage with a man aged x. It follows that if a large excess of males of a11 ages is maintained in the population, the female component grows as a multi-type Galton-Watson process. Under such circumstances, the females have perfect freedom in their choice of marriage partner, and the use of a multi-type Galton-Watson process is very realistic. The same result is true for the male component of the population. Ir there are no males (or females) , no marriages take place, so the model is realistic on this score also. A complex computer program is described, and a detailed numerical example given.

Unhappy Marriage and Divorce: A Study of Neurotic Choice of Marriage Partners

Unhappy Marriage and Divorce: A Study of Neurotic Choice of Marriage Partners