Marriage And Marriage

Preference, superiority, selection and devotion keep monogamous marriage a social institution. Clearly, marriage degenerates when these characteristic traits are not present. In order to have a true monogamous marriage, a man would have to mark the woman he married as superior. However, this cannot be implicitly true. It is evident that some people should not be parents, and should not raise children so there are clearly some flaws in this relationship among society in these social institutions.

Marriage is described as two people as partners in a personal relationship. There are two typical ideas of marriage that we know today. The first one that comes to mind is the one we all know, based on love, but there is another one that some may not even know of and its arranged marriages. Arranged marriage is not typically in our culture we know but in different cultures arranged marriages are their normal marriage. Throughout this essay, I will discuss the importance of realizing cultural diversity and how we apply the perspectives we gain from cross-cultural comparison to our own experience using central concepts about marriage to compare and contrast marriage in several cultures.

Marriage has always been a convoluted subject to every era of time, especially when wealth is brought into the equation of it. During the Romantic Era, the state of marriage illustrated women’s continued inequality in society. For instance, women lacked legal equality once they entered marriage due to coverture, which is the condition of a woman during her married life, when she is under the law of being the authority of and protection of her husband. This basically entails that once a woman marries, she is property of her husband. In later decades, women would make great strides to gain legal recognition. However, during the late eighteenth century, Romantic feminists voiced more practical concerns rather than that of law (Feldman 280). Before the nation could acknowledge women as equals, husbands must first accept their wives as true partners in marriage. This was considered not only logical, but practical. Feminists located one of the sources of inequality within women’s own behavior and the methods they employed to gain husbands. Women had been taught to use beauty and love to attract husbands, but beauty and love are only temporary states. These states do not establish a solid foundation for a lasting marriage. As illustrated in Jane Austen’s novel Emma, a successful marriage is founded upon the match between two personalities, and not upon looks.

Established with Adam and Eve, still surviving, marriage is the oldest institution known. Often the climax of most romantic movies and stories, whether it may be ‘Pride and Prejudice’ or ‘Dil Wale Dulhaniya Ley Jaein Gey’, marriage has a universal appeal. It continues to be the most intimate social network, providing the strongest and most frequent opportunity for social and emotional support. Though, over the years, marriage appears to be tarnished with high divorce rates, discontentment and infidelity, it is still a principal source of happiness in the lives of respective partners. Although marriage is perceived as a deeply flawed institution serving more the needs of the society than those of the individuals, nevertheless, marriage is

Girls all over the world are forced into marriages due to financial necessity, tradition and to ensure their future. Most of these girls married are at a young age: “One third of the world’s girls are married before the age of 18 and 1 in 9 are married before the age of 15”( “Child Marriage Facts and Figures”). The young ages of those being married reveal how crucial it is to resolve this problem. When child marriage occurs the parents of the bride usually chose the groom for their daughters; and these grooms can be three times older than the young brides. Some children are brought into the world of marriage at the of 8 or sometimes less depending on their cultural views. The following can be used to help reduce the impact of early

In the ancient world women had no say to whom they want to marry and there was no such thing as love based relationship among them, it was all about the heiress. According to the article by Joshua J. Mark “ In the language of the Sumerians, the word for `love’ was a compound verb that, in its literal sense, meant `to measure the earth,’ that is, `to mark off land’. Among both the Sumerians and the Babylonians (and very likely among the Assyrians as well) marriage was fundamentally a business arrangement designed to assure and perpetuate an orderly society. Though there was an inevitable emotional component to marriage, its prime intent in the eyes of the state was not companionship but procreation; not personal happiness in the present but communal

In the 4 selected documents, women’s view of marriage is clearly conflicting. Women can have a positive view of traditional marriage as it can bring security, comfort, status and many other advantages. However it also has setbacks. These setbacks have strenghed over the last few years. In the mondern day world there is a 50% divorce rate, a clear indicator of the diminshment, and the subversion of

Marriage is a ritual that marks a change in status for a man and a woman and the acceptance by society of the new family that is formed (Rosman & Rubel, 1981). Marriage, like other customs, is governed by rules (Rosman & Rubel, 1981). Anthropology has represented marriage as the definitive ritual and universally translatable regulative ideal of human societies (BORNEMAN, 1996). Marriage also the act of joining two persons of opposite sex together to become as husband and wife. Many people in the society have different opinions or outright misconception of the meaning of marriage. While some people see it as a union between a man and woman, others take it to mean an agreement made between a man

In the past, marriage is a necessary process of life. It was very unusual for people to delay marriage or stay single for their whole life. Marriage was just like a custom that everyone needed to follow. However, according to the research of Anderson and Payne (2016): “In the mid-1950s, the median marriage age at first marriage was at a record low of just over 20 for women and 22 for men, but by 2014, the median age is 27.9 for women and nearing 30 for men (p.1)”. The data shows that there is an apparent late marriage tendency, which means that American people delay their marriage about six years later than 50 years ago. There is a Chinese old saying that marriage is the tomb of love, which shows young people’s hesitation and fear of marriage. What caused this trend? Why has marriage become less attractive today? Is it a phenomenon that happened by accident or an inexorable trend that is happening all over the world?

In the article, The Husband’s Marriage and the Wife’s Marriage by Jessie Bernard, which discuss the research about the effect of marriage between male and female. For man, marriage is a positive act. After marriage, his family can become a motivation for them to work hard. Also, the successful organization of a family is certainly man's position in society. Marriage is good for man, which having a wife to help them to take care of their health. Hence, most divorced and widowed men choose to remarry.

Marriage for many people is part of their live. Religion and tradition is a reason that gives marriage its meaning. Severence states “our marriage system is based upon our religion teachings”(severance 15). Tradition is instructed by each individual’s religion. This means different practices and belief from religion to religion. For Example, in the Catholic Church marriage is a sacrament. A practice that consist a man and a women as GOD as their witness. In other cases, arranged marriages is still practice and they have become tradition. For Example, in India many of the marriages are arranged. According to the lonely plant guidebook on India, “The majority of the marriages are still arranged by parents”(Finlay 52). The authors emphasizes that each culture has their own concept of marriage and to practice it. However, a persons’ religion, beliefs, and traditions play a tremendous role in what marriage stands for. In each culture marriage is practiced with both faith and hope despite the outlook from other religions and

Wedding plays a pivotal role in one’s own life. It is considered to be one of the sacred experience of life in many of the cultures throughout the world. Once people get married, they have many responsibilities on them in their life. In addition, it strengthens the relationship between the spouses and people learn lessons throughout their life which are worthwhile. Although, in North America and other western countries the value of marriage is declining as more and more people are considering it unproductive. There are three areas where the decline of getting married is affected namely, economy of a country, wide gap between the family relations and the loss of culture.

The topic has a close connection to the Humanities and Social Sciences field as it raises an issue of women’s marginalization and oppression being a part of polygamy implementation in society. In contemporary world when the women rights movements and feminism ideology play a prominent role in the international community, polygamy and its effects on women cannot remain unnoticed. Functioning on a base of religious beliefs, culture or traditions, polygamy in many communities is considered as an inevitable part of people’s lives. Therefore, it is important to examine the presence and extent of mental disorders of women as a result of involvement in polygamous family structure. Moreover, this paper will aim to prove the negative impact of

Today, the idea of marriage conjures images of bashful brides beautifully draped in all white, of grandiose flower arrangements climbing towards the ceiling, of romance personified. As an institution in this modern world, marriage represents the apex of romantic love, with an entire industry of magazines, movies, and television shows devoted to perpetuating marriage as an idealized symbol of the ultimate love between two people. Contrarily, as a sociological institution, marriage comes from much more clinical and impersonal origins, contrasting with the passion surrounding modern understandings of the institution. Notably, french anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss theorizes that the institution of marriage emerged from a need to form alliances between groups, with women functioning as the property exchanged so that such alliances could be solidified (Levi-Strauss).

“Made in heaven, found on earth - marriages are a new beginning according to some and the final end for others” (“Arranged Marriage”, 2009). Marriage is religiously and socially a huge responsibility and its failure could affect societies negatively. Arranged marriages are planned by families, when the bride and the groom are chosen either randomly from a wedding or by family relatives. Especially in the Gulf countries, certain families consider such marriages of high social importance. Arranged marriages in this region have a low expectancy of success. Forced marriages, short engagements and incompatibility between potential couples are the main causes of divorce in arranged marriages in the Gulf region.