Argues that secularisation has resulted in marriage becoming less scared and more of a personal and practical commitment
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Beck and Gernsheim (functionalists)
Sees rising divorce rates as a product of growing individualisation and uncertainty of late modern societies
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Fletcher (functionalist)
A rise in expectation has lead to an increase in divorce rate
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Mitchell and Goody
A rapid decline in stigma attached to divorce has had an important change since the 1960s
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Bernard (rad. fem)
Most divorce petitions come from women and this is evidence that women are becoming aware of the oppression they receive from patriarchy and are refusing to allow it
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British social attitudes survey
There is no evidence that the value attached to marriage is increasing
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Beck and Gernsheim (functionalists)
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Sees rising divorce rates as a product of growing individualisation and uncertainty of late modern societies
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