Student Attitudes Toward Mate Selection in a Muslim Society: Pakistan  

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Korson, J. Henry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 31 no. 01 (Feb. 1969), page 153.

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In this study, two samples were taken of graduate students at two of the major universities in West Pakistan, the University of Karachi and the University of the Punjab at Lahore, in an effort to determine how the students, as potential initiators of social change, would respond to the traditional norms of mate selection in their society. The norms call for marriages arranged by their families, frequently without the principals meeting before marriage. An analysis of the responses to a series of questions offering various options in decision making in mate selection indicates that male students took a more liberal position and are more likely to play the role of initiators of social change than are the women, while the Karachi students appear to take a somewhat more liberal stance than do their peers at the University of the Punjab. Attitudes toward the importance of an engagement were almost evenly divided between those who felt it was important and those who did not. Somewhat more Karachi males felt an engagement was important than did their female classmates, while there was no difference between the attitudes of the Lahore males and females. It appears that an important segment of the student body supports the traditional system of mate selection in Pakistan, while a significant number appear ready to challenge the traditional norms. The seeds of social change are, with. out question, present.

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