Trends and determinants of female marriage migration in contemporary China Hu Ying, Li Shuzhuo, Marcus W. Feldman (1 School of Public Management, Xi’an Jiao tong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China; 2 Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5020, USA) Abstract: With the rapid development of China’s economy, an increasing number of unmarried young women are leaving their home...

Is homogeneity in personal relationships in one trait the by-product of selection on another trait, or is it the result of direct selection on that trait? This question has often been analyzed in the context of marriage homogamy. We apply this issue to the question of whether there is selection in networks based on age on the one hand, and marital status on the other hand. The role of age has b...

This article analyses patterns and trends in the educational assortative mating of Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes in educational assortative mating patterns; ii) crossing barriers across educational thresholds and iii) degree of symmetry between male and fema...

ABSTRACT The racial composition of couples is a salient indicator race’s impact on mate selection, but how well do those in intimate partnerships know the identities their partners? While prior research has revealed that an individual’s race may be perceived differently than they identify, most what known comes from brief interactions, with less information established relationships. This study...

Chinese Muslims have actively maintained religious endogamy. However, no research has assessed the role of local residential context in individual Muslims’ marital choices, nor have sociologists examined the heterogeneity in individual Muslims’ responses to such contextual influences. Using Chinese census data between 2000 and 2005, this paper offers a first investigation of such micro– macro i...

this study aims to offer a sociological explanation of influential factors on the rate of tendency toward divorce in kermanshah city. a combination of homogamy theory, exchange theory, and network theory is used as the theoretical framework of the study. the study has been conducted via survey method and data is collected through questionnaire and interview. the statistical sample of study cons...

The aim of this article is to investigate the marriage patterns of married students at Sanandaj Islamic Azad University and the relationship between the patterns and martial satisfaction. The theoretical framework of study is a combination of Modernization, Homogamy. Levin s field and Exchange theories and it was introduced the theoretical model long with research hypotheses. This study conn...