MARRIAGE
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- Created on: 13-04-16 19:52
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- MARRIAGE
- Trends
- Changing Social Attitudes -
- now less socially desirable than in the past
- cohabiting outside marriage is socially acceptable - changes in law means more protection
- much more acceptance of social relationships before marriage
- much more acceptance of having children before marriage
- Secularisation
- declining in influence of religion weakens marriage as a social institution - no religious pressure
- increase in media and celebrity culture
- Higher Expectations of Marriage
- willing to wait to find the right person
- Emancipation of Women
- people, especially women can now choose how to spend their lives
- less social stigma attached to being single
- women now have more educational and career opportunities than ever before (feminism)
- genderquake
- Changing roles of men and women - women dont have to be married anymore
- Cost
- cant afford to marry - prefer to cohabit - money towards a house?
- Changing Social Attitudes -
- STATISTICS
- marriage generally declining -2011-2012 increase of 5.3% in England and Wales
- second marriages are increasing (re-marriages for both partners) 1971-2011 increase of 24%
- people are getting marraied later in life. Mean age for marriage increased by almost 8 years for men and women since 1972
- mean age for marriage is 36.5 years for men and 34 years for women
- more people are choosing to have civil ceremonies rather than religios ceremonies
- 70% of marriages that took place in 2012 were civil ceremonies, compared to 66% in 2002 (4% increase)
- Research
- Wilkinson (1994)
- Genderquake - male and female rules have changed dramtically in such a short period of time
- Campbell (1994)
- suggests that marriage benefits men more than it does women
- Morgan (2000)
- argues that marriage involves unique attachments, obligations that regulate peoples behaviour.
- e.g. she claims men are more likely to be employed than unmarried/cohabiting and earn more because they work harder than any other group
- argues that marriage involves unique attachments, obligations that regulate peoples behaviour.
- Wilkinson (1994)
- Trends
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