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Marrying across class lines- is it a bad idea?
Posted on 1/11/17 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 1/11/17 at 6:57 pm
this is a good, thought provoking question. it would be very interesting if t were possible to gather statistics on this topic. I bet cross class marriages end in divorce at a much higher rate than same class marriages.
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In her 2015 book The Power of the Past, the sociologist Jessi Streib shows that marriages between someone with a middle-class background and someone with a working-class background can involve differing views on all sorts of important things—child-rearing, money management, career advancement, how to spend leisure time. In fact, couples often overlook class-based differences in beliefs, attitudes, and practices until they begin to cause conflict and tension.
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For one thing, employees brought up in working-class families may find that the skills and values that were helpful to them growing up—an ability to be spontaneous, to wait for opportunities to become available, to maintain an identity apart from work—do not necessarily translate into the professional world. Meanwhile, workers with middle-class backgrounds may hold an invisible advantage, in the sense that their upbringing infused them with the cultural capital that is valued and welcomed in white-collar settings.
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Posted on 1/11/17 at 6:58 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
This theory sounds very British
Posted on 1/11/17 at 6:59 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
class and family education background (i.e. one side has parents who have PhDs the other side neither parent has graduated from college) not saying either is better or not bc they arent. Just this plays into as well.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:00 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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In her 2015 book The Power of the Past, the sociologist Jessi Streib
Sociologists are morons. It's easy to look throughout human history throughout the world and find a sample of people who will verify any claim you want.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:00 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Anyone can get a degree and great career if they apply themselves nowadays.
Marry who you wanna marry.
Marry who you wanna marry.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:01 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Who do poor men date? All the decent looking poor women are looking for a man with means.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:01 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
If Rex Tillerson's daughter wants to marry me, I'm not going to object. 
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:02 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I'm very much into class lines and boundaries. I don't want your trash mixing in with my purity
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:02 pm to Pectus
quote:yes, but that has nothing to do with class or upbringing, which is still very important when it comes to raising kids, managing finances, etc.
Anyone can get a degree and great career if they apply themselves nowadays.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:05 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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differing views on all sorts of important things—child-rearing, money management, career advancement, how to spend leisure time
That's why God invented pre-Cana classes. You talk about those issues before the wedding and if you can't find common ground, walk away then before you have children and a house note.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:08 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
You don't think college will change how to deal with all of that?
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:08 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Not worried about my kids and class.
But the colored, Japs and Jews we might have to chat about.
But the colored, Japs and Jews we might have to chat about.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:09 pm to tke857
quote:huh
class and family education background (i.e. one side has parents who have PhDs the other side neither parent has graduated from college) not saying either is better or not bc they arent. Just this plays into as well.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:13 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
What is the difference between "working class" and "middle class" and isn't there significant overlap?
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:14 pm to Pectus
quote:not at all, especially when you consider the schools most working/Middle class kids attend. A few years at lsu or ull won't move anyone up the ladder.
You don't think college will change how to deal with all of that?
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:15 pm to Eightballjacket
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All the decent looking poor women are looking for a man with means.
Are they? I think a lot of them might tend to have poor taste in men. The traits that they think of as attractive and masculine would be based on a poor background and example.
Maybe. Just a thought.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:17 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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For one thing, employees brought up in working-class families may find that the skills and values that were helpful to them growing up—an ability to be spontaneous, to wait for opportunities to become available, to maintain an identity apart from work—do not necessarily translate into the professional world. Meanwhile, workers with middle-class backgrounds may hold an invisible advantage, in the sense that their upbringing infused them with the cultural capital that is valued and welcomed in white-collar settings.
A lot of weasel words in there. Not a lot of objective facts.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:17 pm to tke857
Work ethic and upbringing are going to have a huge impact. If one person has had to go out and forge their own path and the other person has been able to rely on others, the two of them together will struggle when they try to meet joint goals.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:19 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
My advise is don't marry a chick you met in a bar and got the puss the first night like me.
10 years of hell
10 years of hell
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:21 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I'd rather my sons marry a minority or be gay than marry a poor.
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