ABSTRACT

This special issue is devoted to the theme of social homogamy, i.e. the likelihood of an individual marrying someone with the same social status, in past times. This introduction aims to situate each article within a broader framework of what unites this collection: a historical community approach to social homogamy in the past. This approach infuses sociological and historical theories in the historical debates on social homogamy. It does so using state-of-the-art research designs, with comparably coded large-scale datasets both on individuals and their families, as well as on the characteristics of the communities they lived in. Such a multi-level approach is deemed valuable as the communities considerably influenced marriage patterns.

摘要

这个特刊专门讨论社会同性的主题，即一个人在过去与某位具有相同社会地位的人结婚的可能性。本简介旨在将每篇文章放在一个更广泛的框架中，以统一该收藏集：过去的历史性社区同化社会做法。这种方法在有关社会同性的历史辩论中注入了社会学和历史学理论。它使用最先进的研究设计，对个人及其家庭，以及所居住社区的特征进行编码，并使用了类似编码的大规模数据集。这样的多层次方法被认为是有价值的因为社区极大地影响了婚姻模式。