What social factors -not just romantic factors you think influence people's choice of marriage patterns

Question

Berger's arugment makes the case for sociology as a debunking perspective-that is looking behind the taken for granted ways that people usually see things.He uses the examples for marriage by showing that, although people think of marriage a happening just because pepole are in love that are actually quite speific social patterns about who marries whom.

Answer 1

I think its anything from cultural to religious to socioeconomic background that plays a huge role on why we marry who we do. A lot of people realise that love does not last forever hence something else is needed in order to make a marriage last, such as compatibility and the idea of that partnership making sense in the long term for financial reasons and in order to have a partner to share things with and to create offsprings. I think its those couples who share similar values and are capable of being friends that outlast the ones who start out in love.

Answer 2

Class and social proximity are surely additional factors. If you attend college you'll hang around with scads of people trying to attain an approximate education. People who are educated tend to marry one another. Your choices in a very small town are more limited.

And then there's timing. If the man is a college freshman and you're a female 3rd year graduate student, the age difference might feel like cradle-robbing. But 10 years later, that age difference wouldn't matter as much. There's also the timing oftwo people interested in each other being unmarried at the same time, or about to become unmarried. Sometimes I think timing has as much to do with falling in love--which you didn't mention--leading to marriage. It all sounds very snobby but when you think about it, it makes sense. We want to marry people who are enough like us to satisfy ourselves and our like interests and values, as well as political views and financial earning interests. But I still believe that love conquers all, no matter what.

Answer 3

People marry for security reasons. They marry because of pressures exerted by family, class and society. Levels of education come into play. They also marry out of emotional dependency, insecurities- settling for whoever will have them. They even marry out of good old fashioned morality- somebody's gotten knocked up and gosh darnit it's the honorable thing to do, ain't it? Studies have also shown that women are attracted to men similar to their won fathers- a chemical match even. They also marry for looks- an A marries and A, a B marries a B and so forth, but there's always the exception...

Answer 4

luv this question!

i think the structure of social factors impacting people's choices in marriage were more defined, impacting and definate in the mid 1900s (50's & 60's). class, race, social status, achieved vs. acquired status and all of that were more prominant issues back then because it was culturally more accepted for parents to play a major role in their childrens' lives until they were married....and to do elsewise was a norm violation, labeling those who dared to be independent rebels. i think in the last tip of the 60s & 70s on, a breakoff and a "me" generation began to surface...which in turn i think began redefining the american culture, even a tradition as old as marriage...living together became more socially acceptable, equal rights for African Americans, women and gay acceptance began to remold our standards of culture.

so now, in the 21st century, i think its a blend of several issues, contingent (in some, but not all) upon your status, culture and ideologies. some races are dealing with inproportionate ratios of men and women...and some in that race are still single while waiting for their future partner within their race or expanding their horizons. some people are looking for a partner that economically matches or exceeds their financial portfolio or are in the same above scenerio. the sub culture definitions are exaustive...but we have the option now of being so picky in who and what we want that we make it almost the hardest thing in the world to....

Just fall in love.

Answer 5

mental abilities are very required or at least don't choose one that u can't be approximate to his or her way of thinking and understanding,
culture is another important factor there preferably be some common believes, behaviors, way of living, with a space for identity,
education
degree of success for both of the couples no matter in which fields, coz that will give them the confident that no one of them is less than the other, and they chose each other in appropriate basis.

Answer 6

in India caste and family background.