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Westermarck argues that marriage is a social institution that rests on a biological foundation, and developed through a process in which human males came to live together with human females for sexual gratification, companionship, mutual economic aid, procreation, and the joint rearing of offspring.
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations ...
Homogamy is marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. It is a form of assortative mating. [1] The union may be based on socioeconomic status, class, gender, caste, ethnicity, or religion, [2] or age in the case of the so-called age homogamy.
The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil marriage and religious marriage, and typically marriages employ a combination of both (religious marriages must often be licensed and recognized by the state, and conversely civil marriages, while not sanctioned under religious law, are nevertheless ...
Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild argues in The Second Shift that despite changes in perceptions of the purpose of marriage and the economic foundations for marriage, women continue to do the bulk of care work to the detriment of the American family. Hochschild illustrates the ways in which an unequal division of the second shift undermines ...
He has been described as "first Darwinian sociologist" or "the first sociobiologist", [10] as well as “an authority in the history of morals and of marriage customs.” [8] He denied the then prevailing view that early human beings lived in sexual promiscuity, arguing that in fact historically monogamy preceded polygamy. [7]
First, the authors contend that there are two main definitions of marriage in our society. They identify one definition as the conjugal view and the other as the revisionist view. "The conjugal view of marriage has long informed the law—along with the literature, art, philosophy, religion, and social practice—of our civilization. . . .
William Bradford Wilcox (born 1970) is an American sociologist.He serves as director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, [2] senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. [1]