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Why marry?

Understanding marriage in modern Britain

Sociologists talk routinely today about change in family life, but tradition is also important and it informs the reasons why most of us still get married

This article is relevant to the topics of ‘Families and Households’ and ‘Culture and Identity’. It also provides an example of a small-scale qualitative study.

marriage, tradition, functions of marriage

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