| Title |
Love, marriage, family organization and the puzzle of neolocality in non-industrial societies: a cross-cultural study |
| Authors |
De Munck, Viktor Celestin ; Korotayev, Andrey ; Vustiuzhanin, Vadim |
| DOI |
10.1177/10693971221120496 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Cross-Cultural Research.. Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications. 2023, vol. 57, no. 1, p. 3-22.. ISSN 1069-3971. eISSN 1552-3578 |
| Keywords [eng] |
marriage ; monogamy ; neolocality ; nuclear family ; romantic love |
| Abstract [eng] |
In this paper we answer the question, “What features of family organization promote romantic love as a basis for marriage in non-industrial societies?” We also directly address Rosenblatt’s findings and those of a follow up study by Lee and Stone that, counterintuitively, show non-neolocality rather than neolocality to be correlated with love as a basis for marriage. Ember and Levinson and even Lee and Stone have thought this finding to be puzzling. We have recoded Rosenblatt’s original measures on a four-point (0–3) scale: no love, low love, medium love and high love and coded additional cases using ethnographic data taken from eHRAF World Cultures (Human Relations Area Files. https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ ). Using these data sets we obtained 109 cultures and tested how post marital residence and marriage types affected the importance of romantic love as a basis for marriage using multiple ordinal regression. Nuclear family organization by itself (including polygynous families) is not significantly correlated with our dependent variable. |
| Published |
Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2023 |
| CC license |
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