Sociology- Marriage
- Created by: Mima
- Created on: 20-04-21 13:17
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- Marriage
- Reasons for change
- Secularisation- less influence of the church
- Declining stigma of marriage alternatives
- Changes in the position of women- Do not want to be oppressed by patriachal marriage
- Fear of divorce- Many marriages end in divorce (50%)
- Types of change
- People are marrying older. Average age rose by 7 years between 1971 and 2012
- Couples are less likely to marry in a church
- More remarriages (1/3 of weddings occur between divorcees)
- Less people are choosing to get married
- Alternatives to marriage
- Cohabitation
- Chester- can be like a 'trial marriage'
- Same sex relationships
- Chosen families
- Jeffrey Weeks- gay relationships choose friends to act as support- often to replace unsupportive family
- since 2014 same sex couples are able to marry
- Chosen families
- One person households
- Living apart together
- Duncan and Phillips- 1 in 10 adults are in a relationship but dont live in the same house
- no longer seen as abnormal
- Duncan and Phillips- 1 in 10 adults are in a relationship but dont live in the same house
- 3/10 households are only 1 person
- Most are 65+
- Living apart together
- Cohabitation
- Reasons for change
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