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Why should marriage be any of society’s business, you might ask. Isn’t falling in love and choosing a partner one of the few individual and intimate matters of choice left to us? A sociologist would probably answer: On the contrary, marriage is an important element in the social fabric and seems likely to stay that way, despite all the predictions of its demise.
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Williams, M. (1986). Marriage. In: Society Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08845-4_21
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