Who Marries Whom?: Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies (European Studies of Population)

Autor: Blossfeld, Hans-Peter.
Rok: 2003
ISBN: 9781402018039
OKCZID: 110027099

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
BLOSSFELD, Hans-Peter., ed. a TIMM, Andreas., ed. Who marries whom?: educational systems as marriage markets in modern societies. Dordrecht: Kluwer academic publishers, 2003. xii, 342 s. European studies of population, Vol. 12.

Anotace

This is the first cross-national study of the educational system as an increasingly important marriage market. Educational expansion and the rising educational participation of women have increased the rate of "assortative meeting" and "assortative mating" across birth cohorts. The book shows that social inequality is growing because increasingly better (and worse) educated single men and women pool their economic and cultural advantages (and disadvantages) within couples. It demonstrates that there has been an increasing closure of social structure and social networks as an unintended consequence of educational expansion. The book is theoretically driven and combines demographic and sociological approaches with rational choice theory to explain assortative mating. Using life-history data from a broad range of industrialized countries and longitudinal statistical models, the book analyzes the process of spouse selection in the life courses of single men and women. The countries included vary widely in important characteristics such as demographic behavior and institutional characteristics. The life course approach explicitly recognizes the dynamic nature of partner decisions, the importance of educational roles and institutional circumstances as young men and women move through their life paths, and the accumulation of advantages and disadvantages experienced by individuals. Who Marries Whom is of interest to sociologists, demographers, economists and students of social structure, social inequality, social and demographic change.

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