SOCI 415 Lecture 6: Assortative Mating Lecture
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The nonrandom matching of individuals into romantic relationships. Blossfield: increasing resource inequality among families in modern societies. The mechanisms of growing educational homogamy, changes in . Could blur racial line in society if more multiracial marriages. Social: highly educated individuals, kids have 2 highly educated or low educated parents - accumulating of parental advantages and disadvantages could pass onto children. Individuals search for partners in a market in which people have preferences for mates but face constrained opportunities. Where we live in, workplace and school can set constraints for who we even meet. Higher earning man earning low earning woman, so specialize and trade advantages. Oppenheimer: the search model & a theory of marriage timing. As society changes and women"s employment increases, education are increasingly preferred by men as well. So now high earning men are increasingly preferred by men as well. So now high earning men now marry high earning women.
