In this sessions students are expected to learn such definitions as homogamy and endogamy, the mechanisms of their occurrence as well as their connection to social status and social mobility. A special attention is payed to marriage markets and cross-national comparisons. Students read and present papers by Greenwood et al., Kalminn, and Smits et al. The trends in assortative mating (increase or decrease), causes of such trends worldwide, their connection with other social inequalities such as household inequalities to be debated.

 

1. Greenwood, J., Guner, N., Kocharkov, G., & Santos, C. (2014). Marry your like: Assortative mating and income inequality (No. w19829). National Bureau of Economic Research.

2. Kalmijn, M. (1998). Intermarriage and homogamy: Causes, patterns, trends.Annual review of sociology, 395-421.

3. Smits, J., Ultee, W., & Lammers, J. (1998). Educational homogamy in 65 countries: An explanation of differences in openness using country-level explanatory variables. American Sociological Review, 264-285.