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Getting Married

The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships

Carrie Yodanis author Sean Lauer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:19th Sep '16

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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 they’re married? What happens when they’re 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.

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

Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer accomplish the remarkable…an engaging book that succeeds both as a lively guide to the new world of heterosexual intimacy and as an authoritative sociology primer. Surveying everything from hook-up culture to stay-at-home dads, from bridezillas to separate bedrooms, Getting Married: The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships reminds us that the most personal aspects of our lives are not just of our own making.

Judith Treas

Chancellor's Professor of Sociology

University of California, Irvine, USA

ISBN: 9780415634694

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 181g

116 pages