The transitional phase of mate selection in East Asian countries

Tsutsui, Junya

doi:10.1177/0268580913484775

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“…However, it is important to underline the contemporary inadequacy of the binary conception of arranged and choice marriages. Classical arranged marriages without the future spouses -or at least not the bride -being consulted have largely disappeared in East Asia (Jones, 2010;Tsutsui, 2010;Zang, 2008) and is eroding in the other parts as well (WLUML, 2006;Bhandari forthcoming). In Arab countries such as Egypt and Morocco, there is overwhelming support for the idea that women should have a right to choose their spouse and also an overwhelming perception that this is currently the case (UNDP, 2005, pp.…”

Section: Patriarchy/masculinismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult Intergenerational Relationships

Kalmijn¹

2014

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

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Times of Change and Family Patterns Two things, only, are certain about the future of the family. First, the family pattern will look different in different parts of the world, and the future will offer a world stage of varying family plays. Second, the future will not be like the past. The second point has an important corollary, which needs to be underlined. Times of change are seldom aware of their own proper significance. Interpreters of the present have a strong tendency either to underestimate (even to deny) what is going on or to exaggerate it (as a new era), caught up as they are in conflicting whirls of social processes and in a competitive race for attention. In the case of the family, exaggeration is the name of the game in public debate. The "End of the Family" contest is mainly between the positivists, hailing a triumph of "individualization" and the advent of "pure relationships," and the negativists, lamenting the dissolution of society, population decline, and the coming of an old-age ice age. To understand your own time of change, you need a strong dose of historical knowledge and a self-critical distance of reflectiveness. On the basis of my research, then, I would like to present here two conclusions. First, there are different family systems in the world today, and they are, on the whole, not converging and in some respects rather diverging; they will also characterize the world in the foreseeable future. Second, the recent changes in the Western European or American family must be comprehended with a longer time perspective than that of the standardized industrial family between the Depressions of the 1930s and the 1970s. The great world religions and the cultural history of civilizations provide us with a world map of major family systems, internally subdivisible and still very diverse but nevertheless discernible patterns of a manageable number. Families in the global world, what do they look like in this new awareness of the intensive interconnectedness of the planet indicated by the word "global"? What meaningful world patterns are there, making sense of the infinite individual

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Section: Patriarchy/masculinismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult Intergenerational Relationships

Kalmijn¹

2014

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

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“…Marriage is often conceptualized as a symmetrical process in which brides' and grooms' experiences are the same; parents choose spouses in arranged marriages, and in “love marriages” spouses choose each other for love. In practice, however, the experience of choice and love can and does differ within couples (Hart, ; Marsden, ; Tsutsui, ). One spouse may have had little or no say, whereas the other may have had veto power over her or his parents' selection, was given the choice of a handful of approved individuals, or asked his or her parents to arrange a match with a particular person.…”

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Conflict and Compatibility? Developmental Idealism and Gendered Differences in Marital Choice

Allendorf

2016

J of Marriage and Family

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Conflict and Compatibility? Developmental Idealism and Gendered Differences in Marital ChoiceDevelopmental idealism (DI) theory suggests that individuals who endorse DI schemas about marriage are more likely to choose their own spouses and do so for love. Such DI schemas conflict with South Asian gender schemas about marriage for women, but not for men. In turn, such conflict and compatibility may create gender differences in incorporating DI into expectations and experiences of marital choice and love in South Asia. Connections between endorsing DI as an abstract model of the world and using DI as a concrete guide for marriage may also differ by gender. Using survey data from Nepal, the author finds that men are more likely than women to expect to choose their own spouse and do so for love. Their parents' expectations show the same gender differences. Men are also more likely to choose their own spouses in practice. Connections between abstract and concrete DI are not stronger among men though.

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“…Indeed, some Emirati families are allowing more information about prospective partners to flow back and forth, as noted by the third author's experience with Emirati university students. There is a growing literature documenting transitions in the way traditional cultures are managing arranged marriages (see Nasser et al, 2013;Pasupathi, 2002;Tsutsui, 2013). Although this study does not prove a UAE transition, it suggests that some change is taking place.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…In an arranged marriage culture this might sound like wishful thinking. However, there is some evidence that arranged marriage norms are in transition (Tsutsui, 2013). In a number of arranged marriage cultures, parents play a big role in bringing a couple together, but the couple has decision-making power as well (Nasser, Dabbous, & Baba, 2013;Pasupathi, 2002).…”

Section: Themes Common To Women or To Menmentioning

confidence: 99%