Homogamy in Social Characteristics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2201732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernest W Burge, Ernest W Burgess, Paul Wallin |
| Year | 1943 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-124 |
| Publication date | 1943-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/219346 |
| OpenAlex | W2020444757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
Previous studies of homagamy show that married couples tend more to resemble than to differ from each other in physical and psychological traits. Data secured from one thousand engaged couples living in the Chicago metropolitan area make it possible to present the evidence on homagamy for social characteristics. In all but six of the fifty-one social characteristics studied, the excess of the actual over the expected percentage of resemblance between members of the couple is statistically significant. The tendency for homogamy, however, varies by different social characteristics, as may be indicated by the mean value of C for groups of items as follows: religious affiliation and behavior, .54; family backgrounds, .38; courtship behavior, .33; conceptions of marriage, .31; social participation, .24; and family relationships, .12
Courtship · Developmental psychology · Geography · Metropolitan area · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Generations, social homogamy and stratification in Finland, 1700–1910
Age dissimilar marriages
Racial, Educational and Religious Endogamy in the United States
Some Implications of the Homogamy-Complementary Needs Theories of Mate Selection for Sociological Research
Judgment of covariation by social perceivers
Similar or Related Personality Traits as a Factor in Marital Happiness
A Contribution to the Debate on Homogamy, Propinquity, and Segregation
Social and Psychological Bases of Homogamy for Common Psychiatric Disorders
Shifting Boundaries
Unofficial Union-Management Relations
Status Inequality and Stress in Marriage
Unemployment and Marital Dissolution
Trends in Educational Assortative Mating in Central Europe
Interactional Effects Between Relational and Cognitive Reserves on Decline in Executive Functioning
Opleidingshomogamie in Nederland revisited
Marrying Up by Marrying Down
Space Matters? Exploring Gender Differentials in the Age at Marriage, Greece (1980–2017)
Homogamy Unmodified
What a difference a term makes
Der Altersunterschied zwischen Ehepartnern
Bound by language
Role Strains and Personal Stress
The New Second Generation in Switzerland
Trends in Educational Homogamy
The unstable social networks of students
Dilemmas of the high-achieving chicana
The duality of class and love
Status Homogamy in the United States
A Theory of Marriage Timing
The Emergence of a Specific Kind of Individualization Habitus Among Divorced Women
Anomia and the sacred canopy
Ethnic Homogamy in Slovakia between 1992 and 2012
Has the Post-communist Transformation Led to an Increase in Educational Homogamy in the Czech Republic after 1989
Phenotypic assortative mating among the Peruvian Cashinahua
Intermarriage Attitudes Among Minority and Majority Groups in Western Europe
Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits
Human height
Evidence of assortative mating for theory of mind via facial expressions but not language
Immigrant Incorporation in American Cities
Family Formation and Marital Selectivity among Colombian and Dominican Immigrants in New York City
Gender-Egalitarian Attitudes and Assortative Mating by Age and Education
Union Formation Implications of Race and Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment
Ethnic Language Retention and East Asian Endogamy in the United States
Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
Does the internet affect assortative mating? Evidence from the U.S. and Germany
Motivations for Endogamous Relationship Preferences
Like Will to Like? Partner Choice among Muslim Migrants and Natives in Western Europe
Occupational Homogamy in Eight Countries of the European Union, 1975-89
Assortative Mating
Mate selection in man
Assortative Mating
Physiognomic Homogamy
Residential Segregation, Marriage, and the Evolution of the Stratification System
Demographic pattern in history
Le rôle de l'héritage et du revenu du travail dans les choix matrimoniaux
Marrying Within the Alma Mater
Financial Literacy in the Family Context
Devalued' Daughters Versus 'Appreciated' Sons
Does Status Inconsistency Matter for Marital Quality
The effects of homogamy in socio-economic background and education on the transition from cohabitation to marriage
Dynamics of Dyads in Social Networks
Educational Assortative Marriage in Comparative Perspective
Mate Selection in the Upper Class
The Significance of Race in the Private Sphere
Effects of Online Christian Self-Disclosure on Impression Formation
Homogamy in Educational Level and Parental Social Class in Finland
Marital age homogamy in China
Educational heterogamy and marital satisfaction between spouses
| Unique citing works | 68 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 1948 - 2025 (78) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |