jueves, 12 de abril de 2007

The Marriage!!!



Unit 8 Celebrations!!!

The marriage is a union between two persons with a social, cultural or juridical recognition, which has finally fundamental the foundation of a family group though also to provide a frame of mutual protection or of protection of the descent. It can be motivated by personal, economic, sentimental, protections interests of the family or like average to obtain some social advantages, which it is what has happened peculiarly under the bourgeois society.

The most habitual form of marriage is between a man and a woman, though the definition is necessary this relation changes of a few cultures to others. In different times and places have been recognized other varieties. Statistically, the societies who allow the polygamy as variety accepted of marriage are more frequent than those who only allow the monogamy. Nevertheless, the monogamy is the most common practice even in the first ones.

The marriage is considered an important concept because it helps to define the structure of the society, to create a bow of kinship between (generally not nearby persons in line of blood. One of his wildly recognized functions is the reproduction and socialization of the children, as well as that of regulating the link between the individuals and his descent that results in the kinship, social role and status. In the societies of western influence one is in the habit of distinguishing between religious marriage and civil marriage, being the first one a cultural institution derived from the rules of a religion, and the second one a juridical form that implies a recognition and a legal set of duties and culturally definite rights.

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