Getting Married The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships [Paperback]

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 theyre married? What happens when theyre 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 book is a useful tool for many sociology courses, including those on family, gender, and introduction to sociology.

1. Introduction

2. Picking a partner

3. I do, you do, we all do

4. Why marry at all?

5. What about love?

6. Hooking up

7. Dating

8. The proposal and the wedding

9. Sleeping, spending time, and having sex

10. Sharing children, the work, and a name

11. Love, abuse, and calling it quits

12. Thinking about change

13. Thinking about radical change

14. Thinking about the rules

15. Thinking about other explanations

16. Conclusions

Getting Married demonstrates the importance of sociological perspectives on the family, providing vivid appraisals of the predictability and variability of marriage in the life course.

Stephen Sweet

Author of The Work-Family Interface

 

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