Identify two cultural trends and two material trends that altered the meaning of marriage during the twentieth century.

What will be an ideal response?


Cultural trends include an emphasis on emotional satisfaction, emphasis on romantic love, and an ethic of expressive individualism. Material trends include the decline of agricultural labor and the corresponding increase in wage labor; the decline in child and adult mortality; rising standards of living; and, the movement of married women into the paid workforce.

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