Getting Married: The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780415634687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 116 str.

Carrie Yodanis; Sean Lauer

Opis

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 books is a useful tool for many sociology courses, including those on family, gender, and introduction to sociology."

O autorze

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.