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Couples’ places of meeting in late 20th century Britain: class, continuity and change [PDF]

, 2007
This article examines couples’ places or contexts of meeting in the second half of the 20th century in Great Britain, utilizing a typology developed by Bozon and Héran.
Lampard, Richard
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Homogamy in socio-economic background and education, and the dissolution of cohabiting unions

Demographic Research, 2014
Background: Despite the increasing prevalence of cohabitation, knowledge of how socio-economic homogamy affects the stability of cohabiting unions is scant.
Elina Mäenpää, Marika Jalovaara
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Gifteklare nordmenns hypergame partnerpreferanser

Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 2023
Sammendrag Begrepet hypergami brukes i antropologien for å betegne hvordan kvinner tradisjonelt gifter seg opp i sosial status. Senere har begrepet også blitt brukt innen evolusjonspsykologi for å forklare asymmetriske og symmetriske partnervalg ...
Lene Pettersen, Runar Døving
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Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say? [PDF]

, 2015
The homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an ...
DE ROSE, Alessandra, Fraboni, R.
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More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017
We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Falcon Julie, Joye Dominique
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Homogamy Unmodified

Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2011
I propose that homogamy and heterogamy be used to signify same-sex and opposite-sex unions respectively, including marriage and cohabitation. This is intended to address a terminology impasse that has given us “marriage” versus “same-sex marriage” in popular as well as academic usage. After a brief review of the word origins and scholarly uses of these
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Stability and change in family time transfers and workload inequality in Italian couples [PDF]

, 2019
This paper analyses changes from 2003 to 2014 in the magnitude and directions of time (i.e., non-market) family transfers and in the gender distribution of total work among Italian couples.
De Rose, Alessandra, Zannella, Marina
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Gender roles and domestic power in energy-saving home improvements

Buildings & Cities, 2022
The importance of considering gender aspects in studies on residential energy consumption has been acknowledged. However, an important topic is still ignored in gender and energy transitions research: domestic power for men and women differs depending on
Françoise Bartiaux
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Trends and Cross-National Differences in Educational Homogamy in Europe: The Role of Educational Composition

Comparative Population Studies
The extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe.
Wilfred Uunk
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Studying Online Behavior: Comment on Anderson et al. 2014 [PDF]

Sociological Science, 2015
As social scientists increasingly employ data from online sources, it is important that we acknowledge both the advantages an limitations of this research. The latter have received comparatively little public attention.
Kevin Lewis
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