Getting Married

The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-415-63468-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Sociology Re-Wired

In Getting Married, Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer examine the social rules and expectations that shape our most personal relationships. How do couples get together? How do people act when they’re married? What happens when they’re not? Public factors influence our private relationships. From getting engaged to breaking up, social rules and expectations shape and constrain whom we select as a spouse, when and why we decide to get married, and how we arrange our relationships day to day.

While this book is about marriage, it is also about sociology. Yodanis and Lauer use the case of marriage to explore a sociological perspective. Getting Married will bring together students’ academic and social worlds by applying sociology to the things they are thinking about and experiencing outside of the classroom. This book is a useful tool for many sociology courses, including those on family, gender, and introduction to sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yodanis, Carrie

Lauer, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Picking a partner

3. I do, you do, we all do

4. Why marry at all?

5. What about love?

6. Hooking up

7. Dating

8. The proposal and the wedding

9. Sleeping, spending time, and having sex

10. Sharing children, the work, and a name

11. Love, abuse, and calling it quits

12. Thinking about change

13. Thinking about "radical" change

14. Thinking about the rules

15. Thinking about other explanations

16. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer are Associate Professors of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Carrie does research in the sociology of the family and gender. Sean uses institutional approaches within economic sociology and the sociology of community. For over 10 years, Yodanis and Lauer have been collaborating on research that takes an institutional approach to the study of marriage.