Aims of the study
To study university students' attitudes towards selecting mates
To compare and contrast men and women's attitudes in selecting mates
There are reasons we choose to date someone rather than the other, and there are reasons, similar or different, we choose to marry someone over the other. Here are some of the main reasons that have influences on selecting your partner.
Economic status. According to Hutter's study, Significant, others and marriage student role attitude, economic status is the most important factor in the marriage. Women, especially the lower class and the middle class women, tend to marry someone with the higher economic status. However, Bayer's study, Marriage plans and education aspiration, shows that men and women in general tend to marry someone from the same economic background to avoid conflicts after the marriage. According to the study on University students' attitudes toward selecting mates and family planning by Pochnukul, 67.75 per cent of men and 81.02 per cent of women agree that economic status matters in selecting their partners. They believe that their partners should have the similar economic status or not too different. Pochnukul also claimed that there is a greater number of women who agreed that married couple should have similar economic background than men which means that women cared more about economic status in comparison to men. Why is that so when men are supposed to be a breadwinners of the family?? Why women have to care?
Age. According to Walsh study on Trend in age at marriage in postwar Ireland, women in every country tend to get married at the younger age than men, approximately around 3-4 years. Ireland, for example, the age gap between a wife and a husband usually no more than 5 years, with a wife at the younger age. According to Pochnukul's research, the researcher found that 82.11 per cent of the university students believe that in the marriage, men should be older than women; with the 41.83 per cent believe that the age difference should be around 5 years. However, when researcher took a closer look on whether gender of the interviewees have different attitude towards age or not, she found that 51.83 per cent of men believe that men should be at least 5 years older than women they are married to whereas 41.40 per cent of female university students believe that men should be at least 10 years older.
Nuer marriages result in an age gap. Nuer “girls” are usually between 15-17 years old, while the males are in their mid-twenties (Holtzman: 2008, 77). Nuer woman are not considered woman until they have children. This is similar and different than in America. Age gaps are starting become normal; however, American woman are considered women, or adults, at the age of
All people are forced to see themselves as society has shaped them, both male and female. Although progress for gender impartiality has been made, it can still be said that societal maxims enforce the incorrect notion that women are inferior to men. In matters of economics, women are offered far fewer employment opportunities, and I believe that this can be validated by the fact that many women have been conditioned to "marry well and let him...
Does it matter what your social and economical standings are, and do they play a role in if you will succeed in life? The importance of this essay was to talk about the different viewpoints and to argue the point of succeeding and social statuses. I
compared to American present-day society, a society in which a woman's worth is determined by
Socio-economic status is a term that is used when describing the social standings of a group or individual. The social and economic position of an individual or group is based on four main determinants; education, income, occupation and wealth (Piff, Stancato, Cote, Mendoza-Denton & Keltner, 2012). These four determinants are relevant in all realms of class and hold a large influence on the behaviours of each position in the social structure. Each class stresses a different determinant more than others because they are more relevant. For example, the wealthy individuals within the social structure put a lot of stress on their children’s education, whereas the lower class stresses the need to obtain work (Piff, Stancato, Cote, Mendoza-Denton & Keltner, 2012). This can allow people to use socio-economic status as a means of predicting the behaviour of each class.
Also gender is an important factor in America social class. Men will be affected differently and women will be affected differently by the class system. In the class system there is inequality between genders and that greatly affects the social mobility of the genders. Men usually hold more important jobs in businesses while women will work under them. For instance in a article by Richard Hogan, it conveys, “How gender relations within the family are reproduced (emulated), at work, in class relations between secretaries and their bosses.” (Hogan 2001: 68). In families the female is usually taking care of the house, children, etc., while the male has a job and earning money. In this example it explains that the boss has a job and is earning money, while the secretary is taking care of the bosses work. This limits the social mobility of females since they always have to work under someone in most cases and they will earn less money than males. Women also take their husband’s social class position when they are married to them. Hogan explains, “Firstly women have been subsumed into class analysis through being identified with the household unit defined by the male partner 's social class position.” (Hogan 2001: 147). This displays that a female has no identity of her own since they take their husband’s social class position it is linked to them. Yet, females still have some kind social class and some social mobility in the class
Over the course of the last century women’s total labor force participation has increased from twenty percent to sixty percent (Power, 2003). Today women are also receiving higher compensation for their work relative too men. Blau, Farber, & Winkler (2010) found that “the gender earnings ratio for each group increased substantially starting in the 1980’s.” Although there is still a considerable wage difference, the growing wages for women relative to men help explain why the demand for men has decreased, because the higher pay is facilitating them towards dependency. Historically, financial success is a typical trait in men that is in high demand in the marriage market, because it correlates over to providing for a family. Since financial success is in high demand it commands a high price (Braunstein, 2013). The ample increases in w...
Perhaps the first thing one must consider is why there are increasing numbers of poor women having children out of wedlock. One explanation of this concept that Edin and Kefalas use is that the poor women view raising their own child as a sense of accomplishment. For instance, they explain “in the social world inhabited by poor women, a baby born into such conditions represents an opportunity to prove one 's worth.” (11.3). Essentially, the women of a low social class view their children as an opportunity for success. It represents a sense of hope and fulfillment that the mother feels when she has a child. Also, interestingly enough, women of a poor class viewed “marriage as a luxury” (11.2). There are also reasons that involve a sense of fear in control. For instance, Edin and Kefalas explain that “poor women do not want to marry until they are set… a young mother often fears marriage will mean a loss of control” (13.3). Essentially, a poor women who has a child
Social class hold significant impact on a person's behavior as a prescribed one's conditions in life. Social class, in contemporary society, the first to the amount of education of person has been subject to as well as their occupational position. The class hierarchy of suggest that decisions and actions of members of higher class will have an impact on society and have consequences, whereas a believe exist at the lower classes are at the ...
Women were believed to belong in the home. They were viewed as only being needed to maintain the household, watch and raise children, and please her husband. Most women were brainwashed into believing that this is truly where they belonged, but it is not. One thing that contributed to this brainwashing is the age difference between a husband and wife. Most women were wed at ages as young as fifteen to men that could be as old as fifty. Christer Lundh studied the ages of when males and females were married in the 19th century and this information was discovered, “Sweden was categorized by Hajnal as part of the European marriage pattern around 1900. By this time, about 14% of men and 19% of women in the age group 45–49 never married, and the average age at marriage was over 28 for men and over 26 for women.18 Even though celibacy rates and average ages at marriage were somewhat lower prior to 1900, it is clear that Sweden has belonged to the European marriage pattern since 1750 when the official population statistics started.19 Local studies indicate that all parts of the country belonged to the same marriage pattern, even though there was regional variation.20” (Lundh 320) The average age at marriage for women was lower for women than it was for men. Women were most times referred to as property and not people because they did not really have a say in anything. They were to be seen and not heard.
In conclusion, the author shows that sex and marriage were in fact associated with whether an individual belonged to the poor, working or high class to demonstrate that lower class men and women had fewer restrictions than the upper class.
About states: In Ancient Rome, girls married between the ages twelve and fourteen as well as some young men married at the age of fourteen also. However, during the middle ages, women married as early as fourteen. But men usually waited until they were well on their feet and able to support themselves as well as a wife. In 1371, the average age for women to marry was 16 and the average for men was 24. However the age changed in the year 1427 to men marry in their mid 30's and marrying women about half their age. (1) However that's when marriages were accepted by society.
A famous quote by John Lennon saying that “love is the answer and only you know that for sure” was not entirely truthful the fact not realised was that, for the many people in today’s contemporary “dating” grouping, truly knowing what the answer actually is in regards to dating is often easier said than done. Therefore, the answer certainly is not love. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (1974), love is defined as a “strong affection, a warm attachment, attraction based on sexual desire, cherish, to feel passion, devotion or tenderness for ~, caress and to take pleasure in ~ “ (p.417). In the modern-day world where the preferences and choices of human mate selection has become a topic of broad exploration, it is highly questionable as to whether or not “love” is the principal influence that leads an individual’s decision of choosing a life-long partner.
A slight repetitive blemish is embedded along with the idea of house husbands. Women statistically make less than men; even if they are working the same job. (Nair 47) Most employers well tend to give men a better income because they are traditionally the “sole bread winner for their family.” (Arendell 157) They give less to women because they believe she already has a man taking care of her and any children she has. This can easily discourage men because their well-known egos can get the best of them, especially when it comes down to the green.
So where do the factor like race, class, or ethnicity and especially gender lie in the social secur...