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Marriage between members of different social groups has long been viewed as a crucial indicator of the strength of the boundaries to group membership. According to Duncan, assortative mating is a “special instance of different association” (1968, p. 683–85) which makes the intergenerational transmission of status symbols possible. If the choice of marriage partner occurred at random, social boundaries would become irrelevant, and family status would be transmitted less to the next generation. Thus, marriage homogamy can be viewed as an integral part of the stratification processes. The theoretical concern of a large body of stratification literature lies in the way of how status boundaries in a society are formed. Scholars in this field argue that association between social position of spouses can be interpreted much in the same way as with the correlation between a father’s and son’s social traits (Sorokin, 1927, Lipset and Bendix, 1959, Hout, 1982). In his work on social mobility (1954, p. 321) claims: “One of the tests for the ‘openness’ of social structure is the extent of marriage between persons of different social origins.”
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Bukodi, E., RÓbert, P. (2003). Who Marries Whom In Hungary?. In: Blossfeld, HP., Timm, A. (eds) Who Marries Whom?. European Studies of Population, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8_12
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