Attendance/Participation 10/24/14
I chose to interview a female in her early twenties, and we talked about homogamy in relationships. After I explained to her what monogamy meant, I asked whether or not she sees this pattern in her life. She said that she sees the pattern of marrying with the same race, and sometimes the same social class but not always the same education level. In her life, everyone in her family has married the same race, but not always the same social class. Her father came from a single-parent family where his mom worked two jobs, and her mom came from a family where her parents were millionaires. She feels like the reason people tend to marry people who are similar to them is because it makes it easier to get together and become one. She also said that people who marry someone similar usually have similar ideas of how to spend money and priorities of where to spend more money versus less money. When I asked her whether or not she feels like she looks for those similarities in someone, she said no because she feels like some of those things are superficial and that they do not determine how strong a marriage can be.
Darnell Taylor
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