endogamy
endogamy : see marriage .
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Bringing marriage Down Under.(Australia)(Same-sex marriage)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 3/16/2004; 122 words
; ...in Australia to have their Canadian marriage validated at home so that they can legally refer to each other as husband. We see marriage as a lifetime commitment, just like everyone else, McCheyne told Melbourne daily newspaper The Age. We are a family now...
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Last comes love.(Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...difficult, and messy. But even with these changes, Coontz doesn't see marriage as doomed. Over the past century, marriage has steadily become...Athens gave marriage a legal framework. But Athenians did not see marriage as the home of true love. That rested in the relationship...
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What is this thing called love?
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 12/19/2000; ; 629 words
; ...encroachments of anathemas like gay marriage, polygamy, and no-fault divorce as the culprits. Meanwhile, committed leftists see marriage as being too strictly conceived and, at bottom, repressive of women. Thus, they're denouncing it (even the same-sex variety...
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LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 3/24/2004; 700+ words
; ...marriage last week. First, that its status is unclear as Oregon law is clarified and, second, that my father did not live to see marriage equality for all adult couples. As an elementary school principal and active participant in the racial desegregation of Southern...
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Good Samaritans. (Century marks).(endogamy research Israel)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 1/11/2003; 136 words
; GOOD SAMARITANS: Endogamy, or inbreeding, is typically thought to lead to genetic disaster...experience deafness or a movement disorder). And other groups that practice endogamy don't have more than average genetic problems, though the genetic...
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National endogamy and double standards: sexuality and nationalism in East-Central Europe during the 19th century.(SECTION III REGIONAL ISSUES)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...overlap in myriad ways. However, national endogamy may be the most characteristically national...This essay examines national sexual endogamy in Central and Eastern Europe during...discusses patriots who promoted national endogamy: their ideals, their sexual lives, and...
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Religious stability, endogamy, and the effects of personal religiosity on attitudes toward abortion.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...groups and across contexts of religious stability/change and endogamy/exogamy. Using data from the NORC General Social Surveys, we...faith, but that the influence of religious stability/change and endogamy/exogamy on this relationship are not as pronounced as anticipated...
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Church, state join struggle to save U.S. marriages.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 9/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...married now, and projections are two-thirds of them will tie the knot by 2001. That would gladden the hearts of those who see marriage and the family as the principal hope for civilization. The downside, however, is that divorce also remains in vogue. While...
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Defiance and Compliance: Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo. (Books).(Heba El-Kholy, author)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: International Peace Update; 12/1/2002; 198 words
; ...four Cairo neighbourhoods shows them vigorously confronting gender inequalities. Mindful of their sexual reputations, they see marriage less as oppression, more as risky entry into the real world of womanhood. These women can be strong on negotiations over...
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Gay marriage may be religious right's 'wedge' issue in 2004 elections.(People & Events)
Magazine article from: Church & State; 11/1/2003; 503 words
; ...groups are working with members of Congress to promote a constitutional amendment that would limit marriage to heterosexuals. (See Marriage Proposal, October 2003 Church & State.) Bush has not officially endorsed the amendment, but he did say he believes marriage...
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endogamy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
endogamy The preferred or prescribed practice of marrying within the defined kin-group, be it clan, lineage, village, or social class. The...
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exogamy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
exogamy See ENDOGAMY .
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tinkers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...settled population. They are nevertheless defined by some observers as a separate ethnic group, characterized by a high degree of endogamy and preserving a distinctive way of life across generations. The Poor Inquiry of the 1830s distinguished between tinkers and...
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marriage
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a group). These rules may be prescriptive or, as in the case of the incest taboo, proscriptive...
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caste
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...proffered by André Béteille, who describes a caste as ‘a small and named group of persons characterized by endogamy, hereditary membership and a specific style of life which sometimes includes the pursuit by tradition of a particular occupation...
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