Marriage
Marriage is often defined as a “socially sanctioned sexual and economic union between men and women”
Marriage is the process by which two people who love each other make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death, but in practice is increasingly cut short by divorce. In cases like this, the heaviest burden is not on the couple but on the children.
Reason Why People Marry * Human infants have a prolonged period of dependency. * People get married to overcome the threat of sexual competition. * People get married because they benefit from each other’s labor. * Men Marry because this is one way of gaining dominance over woman. * In small societies all men and women are expected to marry. * Human infants have a prolonged period of dependency. People get married to overcome the threat of sexual competition. * People get married because they benefit from each other’s labor. * Men Marry because this is one way of gaining dominance over woman. * In small societies all men and women are expected to marry.
Marriage as an Exchange
“Marriage in small scale societies serves as a generalized exchange system centering in the exchange of women between groups.”
2 Marriage systems as an Exchange. * Elementary System those which defines rules on who could marry whom. * Complex System simply specify whom one cannot marry but are not particular about whom one can or must marry.
“Marriage is a process that consist of three parts: * finding a potential spouse, * securing the marriage ; * and maintaining it.”
Residence after marriage * Neolocal Residence-The couple leave or reside in the place far from the residence of the bride’s and bridegroom’s parents. * Matrilocal or Uxorilocal Residence-Where a wife brings her husband to her parents house. * Patrilocal or Virilocal Residence-Where man brings his wife to his
Marriage is the process by which two people who love each other make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death, but in practice is increasingly cut short by divorce. In cases like this, the heaviest burden is not on the couple but on the children.
Reason Why People Marry * Human infants have a prolonged period of dependency. * People get married to overcome the threat of sexual competition. * People get married because they benefit from each other’s labor. * Men Marry because this is one way of gaining dominance over woman. * In small societies all men and women are expected to marry. * Human infants have a prolonged period of dependency. People get married to overcome the threat of sexual competition. * People get married because they benefit from each other’s labor. * Men Marry because this is one way of gaining dominance over woman. * In small societies all men and women are expected to marry.
Marriage as an Exchange
“Marriage in small scale societies serves as a generalized exchange system centering in the exchange of women between groups.”
2 Marriage systems as an Exchange. * Elementary System those which defines rules on who could marry whom. * Complex System simply specify whom one cannot marry but are not particular about whom one can or must marry.
“Marriage is a process that consist of three parts: * finding a potential spouse, * securing the marriage ; * and maintaining it.”
Residence after marriage * Neolocal Residence-The couple leave or reside in the place far from the residence of the bride’s and bridegroom’s parents. * Matrilocal or Uxorilocal Residence-Where a wife brings her husband to her parents house. * Patrilocal or Virilocal Residence-Where man brings his wife to his