Late marriages, especially beyond the age of 30, reduce the number of women available for autonomous marriages. Introductions and arranged marriages become a productive option. [43] For the origins of the term “arranged marriage,” see Aguiar (n 1) 14. Forced marriages, which are practiced in some families, are condemned by the United Nations and are not an arranged marriage. The specific subcategory of forced child marriage is particularly condemned. [1] In other cultures, people usually choose their own partner. Families in arranged marriage cultures are organized hierarchically, with each member being aware of their own status and the social rank of the others,125 each member submitting to “group control” and fulfilling “socially imposed roles,”126 each member retaining their proper place, maintaining order,127 and subject to “hierarchical interdependence”.128 It is profoundly clear that elders arrange marriages – it is their duty to find correspondence with good families. and exert control over who joins the family.129 This is true whether or not they share this task with the marriage agents. “From the perspective of many parents, it is a paramount task to organize and see through your children`s marriages to the extent that your role as a parent is not fulfilled until that duty is fulfilled.” [130] It is “a matter of great family honour.” [131] It is also a necessity because “marriage generally confers the status of wife and husband, which in many societies has been and is considered necessary to be considered an adult rather than a child.” 132 It is only through marriage that intimate life with a stranger who has become a family is legitimate. Boys are therefore dependent on elder patronage.133 Amber, a twenty-four-year-old student, “sought parental intervention and said it was their `responsibility.`134 Elders should not give up this role or share it with the less qualified. They, too, are accountable to tradition and community.135 But they, too, as good guardians and authority figures, are required to choose wisely and in the best interests of the child.136 A more in-depth examination of guardianship is given below, which is “a standard justification for hierarchical rule”137 and authority, which is also manifested in hierarchical relationships.138 Other definitions reinforce attention to the more explicit Individual.
For example, in the definition of “marriage arranged by the families of individuals”,58 the individual is considered a separate entity, while, as we will learn in Section III, a “person oriented towards tradition”. hardly considers himself an individual. 59 Indeed, “[t]he ideology underlying a South Asian `arranged` marriage is that obligations to one`s immediate and extended family take precedence over self-interest.60 Ignoring this, arranged marriage is judged from a `Western individualistic inclination`.61 Similarly, many definitions include the words `control`, `agency`, all of which emphasize individual autonomy as a norm, and indeed, to draw attention to arranged marriage as a space in which matrimonial agents are increasingly negotiating individual control. Other definitions refer to this “control,” which emphasizes domination and power, suggesting that arranged marriage is a battleground between elders and young people: “Traditional arranged marriage placed considerable power in the hands of parents, and especially the father. 62 Or: “In `traditional` societies, parents or the extended family dominate marriage decisions.63 The difference in power mentioned suggests that: that there are two parties with opposing goals and interests. which, in turn, is not an insightful reflection on the unified interests that are so characteristic of group cultures. Culture is also presented here as simply problematic: the role of a father or parent is that of power or domination, with negative connotations and not much more. While arranged marriages are usually concluded between families within the same community, far-sighted leaders have used arranged marriages to connect different cultures and nationalities in their fields.
The most notable of these was Alexander the Great, who married 10,000 of his officers to Persian women in 324. The mass wedding that took place in Susa was a model for Alexander`s desire to complete the unification of the Greek and Iranian peoples. It is necessary to study arranged marriage on its own terms and not in a binary relationship with autonomous marriage.2 This will make it possible to judge arranged marriage by the qualities and rewards it holds for its practitioners. At its core, this article hopes to contribute to an understanding of arranged marriage from an unbiased perspective. In China, arranged marriages (baoban hunyin, 包办婚姻) – sometimes called blind marriages (manghun, 盲婚) – were the norm before the middle of the 20th century. A marriage was a negotiation and decision between parents and other older members of two families. Boys and girls were generally told to marry without the right to coercion, even if they had never met on the wedding day. [5] [6] [7] Romantic and arranged marriage: This is a marriage between a mutually acceptable and consensual couple facilitated by the couple`s parents. Etymological note: Latin means “with” or “with”.
[1] Section III aims to construct a Type 3 Weberian ideal of traditional arranged marriage as a useful tool that provides neutral and unbiased information on the general traits that all arranged marriage systems have in common to varying degrees. Arranged marriage is understood as a hierarchical guardianship marriage system, organized aristocratic and maintained by parental authority, group orientation and membership. This section will provide a conceptual and theoretical analysis of arranged marriage, drawing on literature that crosses tradition and modernity, by leading scholars in the field.4 Through this analysis, a marriage system embedded in a culturally inherited belief that boys must be freed from the choice of partner that is perceived, not so much as a harmless freedom with a simple individual effect. But as a burden that the strongest shoulders of the community must carry, and as a decision that has far-reaching implications for the family, the extended family and the community. Aside from abuse, it is usually a fundamental principle of arranged marriage that union is a voluntary decision made by both people involved. The main difference in the procedure between arranged marriages is the nature and duration of the time between the session and the engagement.
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