Abstract
Marriages are one of the most authentic and worldwide accepted methods
of forming families with different methodologies depending upon social
norms, religions and cultures. No one can deny the importance of
marriages in a society. Studying society from different dimensions like
urban and rural angles, religious and secular aspects or social
stratifications and class distribution; human behavior can be measured
through social theories and perspectives. Current study is based on indepth interviews of 15 managers of different marriage bureaus from urban
and rural region of Karachi, Pakistan during 2016, this study analyses the
changing pattern of marriages and its impact on nuptiality. The results
revels that from last two decades the marriage pattern is changing
gradually. As compared to previous marriage system, now the number of
marriages is declining due to paradigm shift in education from boys to
girls. Now girls are more educated as compared to their male counterparts.
Now-a-days, the parents of grooms are trying to find out batter matches for
their daughters/girls due to large population of girls and declining interest
of boys in education. Currently cultural difference is not a big issue in
cross-cultural marriages.
Dr. Ameer Ali Abro, Dr. Aazadi Fateh, Dr. Zulfiqar Haider Zaidi , Dr. Irfana Shah. (2017) Changing Patterns Of Marriages And Its Impact On Nuptiality: Sociological Study Of Karachi, Pakistan, The Women - Annual Research Journal of Gender Studies, Volume-09, Issue-1.
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