Marriage Arrangement

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Marriage Arrangement Divorce

• By Zeina Nehme

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Hypothesis

• Variables Used
• V740-Marriage Arrangement
• V743-Attitude Towards Divorce
• V744-Frequency of Divorce
• Arranged Marriages result in low divorce rate,
  hence the attitudes towards divorce are
  disapproved and the frequency of divorce is
  uncommon.

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Hypothesis (contd)

• To test the hypothesis, I used Cross-Tabulations
  with correlations and statistical significance.
• I also researched authors who have coded these
  variables and they are Goody, Rosenblatt,
  Schlegel, Coppinger, Eloul, etc

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Tables

• Table 1a
• Cross-tab of Marriage Arrangement Attitudes
  Towards Divorce.

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Tables (contd)

• Table 1b
• Symmetric Measures for the results from Table 1a

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Tables (contd)

• Table 2a
• Cross-tab of Marriage Arrangement Frequency of
  Divorce.

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Tables (contd)

• Table 2b
• Symmetric Measures for the results from Table 2a

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Results

• I reject the null hypothesis when I test it with
  the attitudes of divorce variable
• Divorce attitudes are stricter in societies where
  individuals select their partner as we can see in
  tables 1a 1b. Therefore this proves my
  hypothesis wrong
• The correlation is a negative slope.
• P value is significant at .075

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Results (contd)

• However, I accept the null hypothesis when I test
  it with the frequency of divorce variable
• Frequency of Divorce is more in societies where
  individuals select their partners and less in
  arranged marriage societies.
• The correlation is positive in this case
• P value is significant at .187

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Conclusion

• The correlations of arranged marriage with
  attitudes towards divorce are opposite to those
  with frequency of divorce (behavior).
• With a larger sample size, the standard error
  will be smaller, making the results more
  significant especially in the second case where
  frequency of divorce was tested and the p value
  is at .187, a larger sample would have reduced
  that value making it more significant. Whether a
  larger sample would produce significance would
  require testing with a larger sample.

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References

• Bell, Robert R. Marriage and Family
  Interaction. Illinois The Dorsey Press, 1971.
• Blood, Robert O. Jr. and Donald M. Wolfe.
  Husbands and Wives the Dynamics of Married
  Living. Illinois The Free Press of Glencoe,
  1960.

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References (contd)

• Goody, Jack. "Comparative Studies in Kinship".
  Stanford Stanford University Press, 1969.
• Coppinger, Robert M. and Paul C. Rosenblatt.
  Romantic Love and Subsistence dependence of
  Spouses. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
  vol. 24, no.3, p.310-319. Albuquerque, 1968.

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References (contd)

• Goody, Jack. ed. "The Character of Kinship".
  London/New York Cambridge University Press,
  1973.
• Goody, Jack. and S.J. Tambiah. eds. "Bridewealth
  and Dowry". New York Cambridge University Press,
  1973.
• Rheinstein, Max. Marriage Stability, Divorce,
  and the Law. Chicago The University of
  Chicago Press, 1972.

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References (contd)

• Rosenblatt, Paul C. Marital Residence and the
  Function of Romantic Love. Ethnology vol. VI,
  no.4, p.471-480. Pittsburgh, 1967.
• Schlegel, Alice and Rohn Eloul. Marriage
  Transactions Labor, Property, Status. American
  Anthropologist vol. 90, no.2, p.291-309.
  Washington D.C., 1988.