SOCI 415 Chapter Notes - Winter 2017 Chapter n/a - Economic inequality, Social exchange theory, RELA
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Intermarriage and the social structure: fact and theory. Speaking literally, all marriage is inter marriage in the sense that the contrac- tants derive from different social groups of one sort or another. Intermarriage, then, will be defined as marriage of persons deriving from those different in-groups and out-groups other than the family which are culturally conceived as relevant to the choice of a spouse. Polar extremes give rise to two distinguishable types of intermarriage: first, representing conformity to the rules called exogamy. Second, involving prohibited deviations from the rules, called cacogamy. Prescribed marriage within a specified group is endogamy. Actual practices are resultants of the norms and specifiable conditions of group life. hypogamy to denote the pattern wherein the female marries into a lower social stratum. In a mobile social system, it is of course advantageous to marry a person of high class position.
