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This article examines trends in assortative mating in Britain over the last 60 years. Assortative mating is the tendency for like to form a conjugal partnership with like. Our focus is on the association between the social class origins of the partners. The propensity towards assortative mating is taken as an index of the openness of society which we regard as a macro level aspect of social inequality. There is some evidence that the propensity for partners to come from similar class backgrou...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted Manuscript
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1177/0038038517726479
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Sociology Journal website
- Volume:
- 52
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1217-1236
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-14
- DOI:
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1469-8684
- ISSN:
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0038-0385
- Pubs id:
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pubs:707919
- URN:
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uri:c2670648-fd35-44d8-a59c-13c26b2fd791
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uuid:c2670648-fd35-44d8-a59c-13c26b2fd791
- Local pid:
- pubs:707919
- Copyright holder:
- Henz and Mills
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2017 The Authors. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517726479
Journal article
Social class origin and assortative mating in Britain, 1949-2010
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