These social changes came up because of the rapid increase in urbanization and industrialization. Industrialization, along with urbanization had caused some political changes in society. The political
Personally I have gone through arguments with many people about the proposition and what I stood for as a person. I do believe that it is a right for gays to be with their other partner, but at the same time I believe that marriage should be considered between a husband and wife, and marriage is not only done under the state, but under God. If homosexuals want to marry in a church or any type of religious place, they shouldn’t because as a fellow believer of God, I don’t see how they can get married under God’s name, where in the Bible marriage is seen between a man and a woman and not a woman and a woman or a man and man. And if they choose not to follow God’s view on marriage, then why should they get married in the house of the Lord? It just does not seem right.
We are facing a big problem in society about marriages and their stances on civil unions. The movement of same sex marriage has been in the forefront of our society for a couple of years now. On the more Conservative side, politicians are grounded with the idea that marriage should be between a man and a woman. “I view marriage as a gender-based institution that attaches mothers and fathers to each other and to their children” (Morse, 82). According to Proposition 8: The California Marriage Protection Act was a ballot proposition to help conserve the value of marriage and changing same sex marriage to be illegal.
<BR> “It just can’t be!†(Eskridge 87) This is one of the many reoccurring arguments Author William N. Eskridge, Jr., has found to homosexual marriage. The definition of marriage is debatable at this point in history. For arguments sake in this essay I will give it the definition found in Webster’s dictionary. “The legal union of two people in wedlock.†(Landoll 128) This leaves a very broad area open to interpretation. Using the common provisions that most people have placed on it can further narrow the definition.
There are many known and universally acceptable definitions of a family unit. However, the conventional UK definition of a family has in the past, and up to date, drawn a lot of criticism and challenges. Basically, the conventional definition of a UK family is “a married heterosexual couple and their children” (Kirby 2000). However, this definition of the most basic unit in the society has faced a lot of opposition, with social scientists challenging this definition from an interdisciplinary perspective. These social scientists also believe that family definitions are different based on race, generations and the situation at hand.
Fatima Mernissi, author of The Veil and the Male Elite, argued accepted male readings for the medieval Islamic past were deeply flawed and sexist when applied to the present. Since the 1990s, the struggle to apply gender inquiry to Middle Eastern societies has also been forcefully challenged by Muslim women in the United States. Middle Eastern women are either silent or passive in their own societies. Unequal, gender hierarchies of power demonstrated that women negotiated theses structures in distinctly inventive ways. Men and women prayed in difference places at the mosque.
Arranged marriages are an ethic dispute that has been an issue for many decades. Forcing someone to marry another with no choice in the matter is something that has caused much debate. Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are proposed by a third party, such as the bride’s parents, rather than by each other. It was common worldwide until the 18th century. In modern times, arranged marriage has continued in royal, aristocratic families and ethnic minority groups in developed countries; elsewhere, arranged marriage is common in South Asia, Africa the Middle East Latin America Southeast Asia and parts of East Asia.
Defining Polygyny: Debates on Kinship and Marriage Abstract How does the practice of polygyny (a form of polygamy) question the idea of marriage and kinship in today’s highly monogamous world? Based on research of published literature and a comparison of polygyny in Utah and Indonesia, this paper concludes that polygamous marriages could possibly be the next frontier to a socially accepted form of marriage system in mainstream societies. Introduction Growing up in a monogamous society I assumed that there is only one way to have a family structure which is a heterosexual monogamous marriage as the core of kinship, leading to affinal and consanguineal kins. This is how most people I have known define marriage and kinship as well. Anthropological studies of kinship present alternative kinship structures thereby questioning mainstream notions of marriage and family.
A Cross Cultural Examination of Sexuality: Modern vs Underdeveloped Societies Psychologists have highlighted a number of divisions regarding sexuality across a variety of cultures. The word ‘sex’ has different meanings. Sex refers to the biological and physiological differences between men and women, the most obvious being differences in their reproductive systems. Every culture controls the sexuality of its members to a certain extent, by embedding it in the institutions of family, religion and law. According to Potts & Short (1999) the core social arrangement within the institution of the family is the marital relationship.
“Marriage is both ubiquitous and central. All across our country, in every region, every social class, every race and ethnicity, every religion or non-religion, people get married (Nussbaum). The most common argument against allowing gays to marry seems to be that we need to protect the institution of marriage. This argument is ridiculous for many reasons. While the main reason people in the US seem to get married is out of love, it is by no means the only reason (Kellard).