Marriage Choices and Class Boundaries: Social Endogamy in History

ISBN-13: 9780521685467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 302 str.

Marco H. D. van Leeuwen (International Institute for Social

Opis

Considers endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, which is central to social history.

Spis treści

1. Endogamy and social class in history: an overview Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas; 2. Marriage choices in a plantation society: Bahia, Brazil Katherine Holt; 3. Deciding whom to marry in a rural two-class society: social homogamy and constraints in the marriage market in Rendalen, Norway, 1750–1900 Hans Henrik Bull; 4. 'We have no proletariat': social stratification and occupational homogamy in industrial Switzerland, Winterthur 1909/10–28 Reto Schumacher and Luigi Lorenzetti; 5. Pyrenean marriage strategies in the nineteenth century: the French Basque case Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga; 6. Homogamy in a society orientated towards stability: a micro-study of a South Tyrolean market town, 1700–1900 Margareth Lanzinger; 7. Finding the right partner: rural homogamy in nineteenth-century Sweden Martin Dribe and Christer Lundh; 8. Migration, occupational identity, and societal openness in nineteenth-century Belgium Bart Van de Putte, Michel Oris, Muriel Neven and Koen Matthijs; 9. Migration and endogamy according to social class: France, 1803–1986 Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Danielè Rébaudo, Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas; 10. 'They live in indifference together': marriage mobility in Zeeland, The Netherlands, 1796–1922 Hilde Bras and Jan Kok; 11. Total and relative endogamy by social origin: a first international comparison of changes in marriage choices during the nineteenth century Ineke Maas and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen.