There are two marriages in every marital union, his and hers. Men and women live in worlds that are organized around gender, and their marriages reflect differing realities. As life companions, they respond to each other; but they also respond to the cultural definitions of what it means to be a husband and a wife. What has fascinated social and behavioral scientists for several years, however, is not only that husbands' and wives' experiences are different, but also that 'his' marriage is better than 'hers'. Numerous findings have reported that married men are better off than married women on measures of both physical and mental health, but the reasons are not yet fully understood. In Marriage in Men's Lives Dr. Nock proposes an explanation to this issue. He focuses on marriage as a system of rules, customs, and expectations. The book shows that marriage changes men on basic dimensions of achievement, participation in public social life, and philanthropy because marriage reinforces such behaviors as part of adult masculinity. Men in modern society crave well-being, comfort, luxury, and prestige, and marriage affords a means of achieving these things within circumscribed legitimate boundaries. Using a huge data base of over 6,000 interviews with men the author has studied since 1979, Nock draws some interesting and far-reaching conclusions about the nature of marriage, and predicts that marriage is definitely here to stay.
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"Marriage in Men's Lives is a searching, original look at why the institution of marriage has been so central to our society's definition of what it means to be a man . . . . Full of insights." --Andrew Cherlin, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
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Steven L. Nock is at University of Virginia.
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My goal in this book is to answer two questions: How and why does marriage change men? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
normative marriage, marriage changes men, marriage dimensions, adult achievement, adult masculinity, gender factory, family independence, gender display, less housework, soft boundaries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maximum Figure, Bureau of the Census, General Social Surveys, Marital Status Figure, The New Normative Marriage, Supreme Court, Minimum Maximum Change, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Independent Sector, Personol Communities, Elisabeth Badinter New!
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My goal in this book is to answer two questions: How and why does marriage change men? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
normative marriage, marriage changes men, marriage dimensions, adult achievement, adult masculinity, gender factory, family independence, gender display, less housework, soft boundaries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maximum Figure, Bureau of the Census, General Social Surveys, Marital Status Figure, The New Normative Marriage, Supreme Court, Minimum Maximum Change, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Independent Sector, Personol Communities, Elisabeth Badinter New!
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- The Gender Factory by S.F. Berk on page 40, and Back Matter
- Social Science S/G in Back Matter
- Social Causes of Psychological Distress (Social Institutions and Social Change) by Catherine E. Ross in Back Matter
- The Future of Marriage by Jessie Bernard in Back Matter
- Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America by James Davison Hunter in Back Matter
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- The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially by Linda Waite on page 29, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Emile Durkheim on the Family (Understanding Families) by Mary Ann Lamanna on page 192, and Back Matter
- Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights by William N. Eskridge Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- My Brother's Keeper: What the Social Sciences Do (and Don't) Tell Us About Masculinity by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen on page 203, and page 241
- Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State by Madonna Harrington Meyer in Back Matter
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