Explaining How Major Social Factors Affect The Choosing Someone To Marry In The United States (Case Study Sample)

Sociology
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How major social factors affect the selection of a life partner in the United States.
Every person wants to find someone they can stay with in a successful relationship. Having a successful relationship is however challenge in itself and as such it is important to consider social factors that contribute to relationships and how to build strong and successful relationships.
Social factors are things that have an effect on somebody's lifestyle and they include religion, money, and education level, buying habits, family size and structure as well as the population. Homogamy for instance leads an individual to seek for a partner who has a similar socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, age, education level and religion which most of the times happens sub-consciously or naturally. Hypergamy on the other side means marrying someone in a higher class than self. Women are often seen to be hypergamous in nature. Assortative mating means that an individual will marry someone that has very similar characteristics as they do. For instance, people with shared life experience will have a stronger connection and have easy conversations. People with similar opinions and beliefs will have a strong relationship and people that have common interests will have a more firm relationship as they get to do things they love together mor...