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Attractiveness for Status? The Link Between Physical Attractiveness and Male Refugees' Romantic Relationships in Germany

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines the link between physical attractiveness and partnership outcomes among a group of young male refugees, drawing on Social Exchange Theory, which posits that individuals exchange valued traits—such as attractiveness—for higher status in other domains.
Irena Kogan, Jana Kuhlemann, Laura Marie Schmitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro‐level measures that overlook how individuals are actually exposed to religious pluralism in their lives. This study shifts focus to the meso‐level by examining
Elis Carlberg Larsson
wiley   +1 more source

Structural endogamy and the network [PDF]

Mathématiques et sciences humaines, 1997
This article, one of a series, approaches the topics of marriage and kinship through a revitalized kinetic structural approach that shifts the primary focus from abstract models of rules, terminologies, attitudes and norms to exploration of concrete relations in a population, analyzed graph-theoretically in their full complexity as networks.
openaire   +1 more source

Different Paths, Shared Beliefs? Religion and Partnership Formation Among Young Male Refugees and Descendants of Immigrants in Germany

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study examines how religion shapes partnership formation and religious homogamy among Syrian and Afghan male refugees who arrived in Germany during the 2015/16 influx. It provides new insights by focusing on a particularly vulnerable group of refugees who are culturally distant from the host society and comparing them to ...
Jana Kuhlemann, Lena Arnold, Irena Kogan, Marlene Bauer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

El mercado matrimonial de las familias tradicionales argentinas, 1900-1940: Algunas dimensiones y tendencias The Marriage Market of Traditional Argentinean Families, 1900-1940: Some Aspects and Trends

Secuencia, 2012
El artículo estudia el mercado matrimonial de las familias tradicionales argentinas entre 1900 y 1940, a partir de una muestra de 550 casamientos y del análisis de sus pautas sociales y culturales.
Leandro Losada
doaj  

Religious Service Attendance and Interracial Romance: The Non‐Evangelical Story

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious service attendance is a consistent negative predictor of interracial romance in the United States, yet less is known about how specific religious affiliations shape this relationship. Using the Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey (CMPS 2020, N = 7883), this study examines how attendance frequency and religious affiliation ...
Heewon Yang
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
wiley   +1 more source

Somatic development and embryo yield in crossbred F1 mice generated by different mating strategies

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The aim of this study was to evaluate different mating strategies among endogamic strains to create F1 populations of mice, minimising the effect of inbreeding depression on somatic development and embryo yield.
RITP. Batista, S. Wohlres-Viana, ISB. Pinto, VV. Maffili, JHM. Viana   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

War, Gender, and Family Dynamics: A Couple Analysis

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A growing demographic literature outlines how war exposure has long‐lasting and far‐reaching impacts on individuals. Yet the nascent literature leaves questions of whether and how the war exposures of key relatives, such as spouses, affect individuals.
Yingyi Lin, Emily Smith‐Greenaway
wiley   +1 more source