The phrase "marriage system" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the customs, traditions, and laws surrounding marriage in a particular society or culture. Example: The marriage system in ancient Greece allowed men to have multiple wives, but women had limited rights and were expected to be submissive to their husbands.
When social networks intersect with India's hoary arranged marriage system, what you get is a generation of jumpy social networkers.
The sad truth is that while we have moved recently to iron out the inequalities in the marriage system vis a vis same-sex couples, where heterosexual unions are concerned we still woefully buy into ancient patriarchal traditions.
By Pliny Earle Goddard The New Yorker, January 30 , 1926 P. 20Talk story on marriage customs of the Haida Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and a solution to our present marriage system.
The New Yorker, January 30 , 1926 P. 20Talk story on marriage customs of the Haida Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and a solution to our present marriage system.
The research achievements of Chinese scholars in the study of the marriage system and the Mosuo people in Yunnan are the result of decades of data accumulation.
Noteworthy is the study of the marriage system (Cai, 1997), which aroused the interest of European and American circles of ethnology and anthropology.
The salient characteristic of many traditional marriage systems is that women especially young women have little independence.
In 1949 he presented a classification of marriage systems from diverse localities, again within the framework of an implicit evolutionary series.
The immediate family is no longer the universal setting for child-rearing in China.More important, the marriage systems of both giants risk being torn apart in future by their practice of sex-selective abortion.
After the War he served for three years as French cultural attaché in New York, while continuing work on a monumental study of marriage systems, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, which was eventually published in 1949.
Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.
