Drawing on detailed interviews with Catholic-Protestant couples in Northern Ireland, this book examines how couples marry across group boundaries in the context of violent social conflict. Challenging existing theoretical assumptions about intermarriages, Mixed and Matched looks at how deviant relationships are formed and how the wider social environment reacts to them. Contents: The Northern Irish Context; Patterns of Interreligious Courtship I; Patterns of Interreligious Courtship II; Getting Married: Rules, Decisions, and Change; Aspects of Married Life; Concluding Reflections.
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Drawing on detailed interviews with Catholic and Protestant couples in Northern Ireland, this book examines how couples marry across group boundaries in the context of violent social conflict. It also looks at deviant relationships and how the wider social environment reacts to them.
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Sociological theories of intermarriage; The Northern Irish context; Patterns of interreligious courtship I; Patterns of interreligious courtship II; Getting married; rules, decisions and change; Aspects of married life; Concluding reflections.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780819184801
Publisert
1993-12-31
Utgiver
Vendor
University Press Of America
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
154
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