Publication details
Preference výběru partnera: Liší se rozvedení a svobodní ve sňatkových a partnerských preferencích?
| Title in English | Partner Choice Preferences: Does the Divorced and the Unmarried Differ in their Marriage and Partner Preferences? |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociológia |
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| Web | http://www.fss.muni.cz/~katrnak |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | partner choice marriage market homogamy |
| Description | The research on social homogamy in marriages answers up to a certain point satisfactory the questions about the nature of assortative mating. Nevertheless, these analyses are not able to examine the tie between partner choice and the preferences of marriage candidates. There are the characteristics of the contracted marriages, indicating the results of the assortative mating process, on one side. On the other side, there are the notions of ideal partner, which all of the marriage candidates more or less explicitly exercise while seeking in the marriage market. This paper has three aims. Firstly, we will describe the partner choice preferences by the basic dimensions like the education, age, physical atractivity and wealth of hypothetical ideal partner. The second aim is to distinguish between the segments of population with different partner preferences and to find social determinants of these preferences. Thirdly, we will compare the preferences of divorced people with unmarried population in order to contrast the first and repeated choice. To answer these questions we use the data from Generations survey, conducted on general population of the Czech Republic, with the boost samples on divorced people and younger cohort. |
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