Romantic love and marriage
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Nebraska Anthropologist
Anthropology, Department of
1-1-2005
Romantic Love and Marriage: An Analysis of the
Concept and Functionality of Romantic Love as a
Marital Stabilizing Agent
Emily Sorrell
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Sorrell, Emily, "Romantic Love and Marriage: An Analysis of the Concept and Functionality of Romantic Love as a Marital Stabilizing
Agent" (2005). Nebraska Anthropologist. Paper 9. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nebraska Anthropologist by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Romantic Love and Marriage:
An Analysis of the Concept and
Functionality of Romantic Love as a Marital Stabilizing Agent
Emily Sorrell
Abstract: When identifYing the central components that constitute general social structures, one cannot overlook the integral role that marriage, in its many manifestations, plays in the make-up of human societies. Marriage, or the ultimate extension of pair bonding, developed largely as a cultural adaptation to the reproduction of slowly developing human offipring and hence can be viewed as a method of maximizing reproductive fitness. If this assumption is correct, then one may presume that it would be beneficial to humans and their reproductive success to engage in marriages of relative stability. Hence, it would be reasonable to assume that there must be methods of stabilizing marriages in all societies. This paper will examine the relationship that exists between romantic love and marriage, as well as the functional role that love may play as a stabilizing agent in certain matrimonial unions.
Recent
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Nebraska Anthropologist
Anthropology, Department of
1-1-2005
Romantic Love and Marriage: An Analysis of the
Concept and Functionality of Romantic Love as a
Marital Stabilizing Agent
Emily Sorrell
Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro
Part of the Anthropology Commons
Sorrell, Emily, "Romantic Love and Marriage: An Analysis of the Concept and Functionality of Romantic Love as a Marital Stabilizing
Agent" (2005). Nebraska Anthropologist. Paper 9. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nebraska Anthropologist by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Romantic Love and Marriage:
An Analysis of the Concept and
Functionality of Romantic Love as a Marital Stabilizing Agent
Emily Sorrell
Abstract: When identifYing the central components that constitute general social structures, one cannot overlook the integral role that marriage, in its many manifestations, plays in the make-up of human societies. Marriage, or the ultimate extension of pair bonding, developed largely as a cultural adaptation to the reproduction of slowly developing human offipring and hence can be viewed as a method of maximizing reproductive fitness. If this assumption is correct, then one may presume that it would be beneficial to humans and their reproductive success to engage in marriages of relative stability. Hence, it would be reasonable to assume that there must be methods of stabilizing marriages in all societies. This paper will examine the relationship that exists between romantic love and marriage, as well as the functional role that love may play as a stabilizing agent in certain matrimonial unions.
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