scholarly journals Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Banerjee ◽  
Esther Duflo ◽  
Maitreesh Ghatak ◽  
Jeanne Lafortune
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Mate Selection ◽  
Strong Preference ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Matrimonial Advertisements ◽  
Unique Dataset

This paper analyzes how preferences for a noneconomic characteristic (e.g., caste) can affect equilibrium patterns of matching, and empirically evaluates this in the context of middle-class Indian arranged marriages. We show theoretically how the equilibrium consequences of caste depend on whether preferences are towards one's own group or for “marrying up.” We then estimate actual preferences for caste and other attributes using a unique dataset of individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements and find only a strong preference for in-caste marriage. This translates, in equilibrium, in caste doing little to alter the matching patterns on non-caste attributes. (JEL C78, J12, O15, O17, Z13)

scholarly journals Pomiędzy miłością agapiczną a erozyczną. Praktyki miłości i związków intymnych wśród indyjskiej miejskiej klasy średniej

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93
Author(s):  
Anna Romanowicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Traditional Form ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork

Arranged marriages are the most common (and perceived as traditional) form of formalized heterosexual relationships in India. However, interest in relationships based on romantic love – especially among urban middle class –is increasing. The goal of the article is to present various practices related to romantic love, which cannot be inscribed in a rigid division for arranged and love marriages; to present everyday strategies and tactics, as they are being practiced by my research participants in context of sociocultural changes. The article is based on information gathered in ethnographic fieldwork (with a technique of participant observation) in Delhi.

scholarly journals Postfeminist Micro-Politics in Shobha De’s Novel Second Thoughts

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Dr. Aishwarya M
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
Drastic Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Insight Into

The novel Second Thoughts deals with the story of a young middle class Bengali girl who marries a Bombay based foreign returned Bengali Boy. The story depicts the disillusionment of a married woman and an explosive tale of love and betrayal that exposes the hollowness of human relationship especially within arranged marriages. This chapter deals with the concept of Micro-Politics which is a significant dogma of postfeminism. Micro-Politics believes that there has been drastic change in the position of women in basic social relationships, within the families, workplace and other public spheres. Postfeministic notion of micro-politics is intended to provide insight into the complicated nexus of relationship and also to rethink this same concept in terms of postfeminism.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ally McBeal and Arranged Marriages: Globalization on the Ground in India

Contexts ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Dernéa
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Indian Men ◽  
Western Media

After a decade of frenzied globalization, the rich of India welcome consumer goods and experiment with new arrangements between men and women. But because the economic opportunities of middle-class Indian men have not expanded, most of them merely welcome Western media images that reinforce their power and masculine self-image.

scholarly journals An Insider Viewpoint on Cultural Norms for Marriage and Mate Selection Relevant to Immigration Fraud Detection in South Asian International Arranged Marriages

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorfarah Merali
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Mate Selection ◽  
Fraud Detection ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Asian Immigrant ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Asian Immigrant Families ◽  
South Asian Immigrant ◽  
Rule Out

South Asian immigrant families residing in Canada often seek spouses for their children from their home countries, and file applications to enable the foreign spouses to immigrate. Marriages of convenience for immigration pose a major threat to genuine international unions, as immigration officers evaluating marriage-based immigration applications must rule out fraudulent relations. Through focus groups with 27 cultural insiders, including South Asian religious and community leaders, this study identified subculture norms for marriage and mate selection that can directly inform immigration fraud detection: (a) intra-familial marriage practices among Pakistani Muslims and South Indians, (b) extra-familial marriage traditions among Hindus and Sikhs, and (c) exceptions to norms for widows and intergroup marriages. Implications for cultural education for immigration officers are discussed.  

Advertising for Love

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
Matrimonial Advertisements ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses how matrimonial ads give a new and unique insight into the way that rapid urban growth and capitalism of the nineteenth century affected people's intimate lives and their approach to experiencing love. Matrimonial advertisers provide an excellent window into how these upheavals in society were negotiated; they were ordinary men and women who wanted nothing more than to conform to a middle-class lifestyle but felt forced to find traditional relationships in an unconventional fashion. Matrimonial advertisements provided a space, for urban dwellers in particular, in which to experiment with a new kind of personal interaction. Matrimonials revealed individuals who were on the move—both geographically and socially—circulating themselves in public in an attempt to find intimacy.

Choice, Preferences, and Constraints

2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Denice ◽  
Betheny Gross
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Strong Preference ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Choice Process ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Hispanic White ◽  
Unique Dataset

Does ‘‘choosing a home’’ still matter for ‘‘choosing a school,’’ despite implementation of school choice policies designed to weaken this link? Prior research shows how the presence of such policies does little to solve the problems of stratification and segregation associated with residentially based enrollment systems, since families differ along racial/ethnic and socioeconomic lines in their access to, and how they participate in, the school choice process. We examine how families’ nearby school supply shapes and constrains their choices. Drawing on a unique dataset consisting of parents’ ranked preferences from among one urban district’s full menu of public schools, we find that Hispanic, white, and black parents share a strong preference for academic performance, but differences in their choices can be traced to variation in nearby supply. Our findings illustrate how the vastly different sets of schools from which parents can choose reproduce race-based patterns of stratification.

Structural Aspects of Phonological Development

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen E. Pollock ◽  
Richard G. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Management ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Strong Preference ◽  
Phonological Development ◽  
Structural Position ◽  
Phonological Disorders ◽  
Syllabic Structure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structural Aspects ◽  
Target Words

The relationship between syllabic structure and segmental development was examined longitudinally in a child with a severe phonological disorder. Six speech samples were collected over a 4-year period (3:5 to 7:3). Analyses revealed gradual increases in the complexity and diversity of the syllable structures produced, and positional preferences for sounds within these forms. With a strong preference for [d] and [n] at the beginning of syllables, other consonants appeared first at the end of syllables. Implications for clinical management of phonological disorders include the need to consider both structural position and structural complexity in assessing segmental skills and in choosing target words for intervention.

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