Explain the role of homogamy in maintaining social class.
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. We are born into families who occupy a social class and we tend to marry within our social class, which is homogamy. While we are increasingly marrying people outside of our religious, racial, and ethnic groups, research shows that we are less likely to marry someone outside of our class group. Marriage is increasingly becoming a middle-class luxury as more people wait to get married until they gain and education and well-paying job. Thus, working-class men and women are less likely to get married and have children, and poorer classes are even less likely to do so.
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a. timeliness b. treatment c. context d. outcome measures
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a. 10,000, 200 million b. 225 million, 3000 c. a few million, 300 million d. several thousand, 235 million
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a. the capacity for intimacy with others
b. a clear identity
c. the ability to act autonomously and remain intimately connected to the family of origin
d. the ability to act autonomously regardless of the way it affects family members or intimate partners