Authoritarianism and arranged marriage in Bangladesh and Korea

Peterson, Bill E.; Kim, Regina; McCarthy, Jessica; Park, Clare J.; Plamondon, Laila T.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2011.08.012

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“…At least in the upper social strata, women can voice their preferences freely or veto parents' choices. In the Peterson et al (2011) study, female undergraduates from Dhaka were more accepting of arranged marriage than their male colleagues.…”

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“…Contrary to most of the studies focused on marital arrangements in Bangladesh, we decided to analyze young unmarried people's preferences, not actual practices. We found only one similar study (Peterson et al, 2011). However, Peterson et al (2011) asked participants about their attitudes about arranged marriages and the importance of emotional connection.…”

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“…We found only one similar study (Peterson et al, 2011). However, Peterson et al (2011) asked participants about their attitudes about arranged marriages and the importance of emotional connection. In concordance with the new approach to studying marital arrangements in South East Asia (e.g., Bhandari, 2017;Donner, 2016;Flicker et al, 2020;Sharangpani, 2010), we decided to widen our framework by including a cultural hybrid, i.e., "love-cum-arrange" marriages.…”

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Globalization, Sharia law, and cultural hybridity: A case of marriage preferences of young Bangladeshis

Szarota

Rahman

Cantarero

2021

Soc. Psychol. Bull.

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This contribution is one of the few psychological studies analyzing the marriage preferences of Bangladeshi urban youths. Our goal was to demonstrate that the line between traditional and “modern” marriage is no longer clear-cut and document the importance of social status and religion in shaping the life priorities of young, educated Bangladeshis. The sample (N = 205) consisted of unmarried university undergraduates aged 19-26. Participants were presented with three marriage scenarios: a traditional marriage arrangement, a hybrid model based on mutual attraction and family support, and finally, a Western-style love marriage. Generally, the Western marriage arrangements were rated more positively than the other models. Surprisingly, there were no significant differences between preferences for a hybrid and a traditional model. Additionally, participants from a higher social milieu with lower levels of religiosity accepted love marriages more eagerly than middle-class students.

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Globalization, Sharia law, and cultural hybridity: A case of marriage preferences of young Bangladeshis

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Rahman

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2021

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“…Surveys were translated into Korean and then back-translated into English before administration in Korean. More information about this sample can be found in Peterson, Kim, McCarthy, Park, and Plamondon (2010). As shown in Table 2, Korean women, like their U.S. counterparts, wanted to date masculine men but not feminine ones.…”

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Gender, Sexuality, and the Authoritarian Personality

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Zurbriggen

2010

Journal of Personality

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The political correlates of the authoritarian personality have been well established by researchers, but important linkages to other major constructs in psychology need fuller elaboration. We present new data and review old data from our laboratories that show the myriad ways in which authoritarianism is implicated in the important domain of gender roles. We show that women and men high in authoritarianism live in rigidly gendered worlds where male and female roles are narrowly defined, attractiveness is based on traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity, and conventional sexual mores are prescribed. As a construct, authoritarianism is not just relevant for understanding people's politics, but it also affects the most personal of domains--romantic partnerships, lifestyle goals, and basic attitudes about male and female relationships.

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“…And high-RWA men, who could have had the luxury of choosing their wives, opted for arranged marriages. They were reluctant to share their feelings with a prospective spouse and dismissed the importance of love and emotional compatibility in selecting a partner (Peterson et al., 2011).…”

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Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle East

Afary

Friedland

2018

Critical Research on Religion

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In 2012–13, we signed up for Facebook in seven Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries and used Facebook advertisements to encourage young people to participate in our survey. Nearly 18,000 individuals responded. Some of the questions in our survey dealing with attitudes about women’s work and cosmetics were adopted from a survey conducted by the Frankfurt School in 1929 in Germany. The German survey had shown that a great number of men, irrespective of their political affiliation harbored highly authoritarian attitudes toward women and that one sign of authoritarianism was men’s attitude toward cosmetics and women’s employment. We wanted to know if the same was true of the contemporary MENA. Our results suggest that lipstick and makeups as well as women’s employment are not just vehicles for sexual objectification of women. In much of MENA world a married woman’s desire to work outside the house, and her pursuit of the accoutrement of beauty and sexual attractiveness, are forms of gender politics, of women’s empowerment, but also of antiauthoritarianism and liberal politics. Our results also suggest that piety among Muslims per se is not an indicator of authoritarianism and that there is a marked gender difference in authoritarianism. Women, it seems, are living a different Islam than men.

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Authoritarianism and arranged marriage in Bangladesh and Korea

Cited by 6 publications

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Globalization, Sharia law, and cultural hybridity: A case of marriage preferences of young Bangladeshis

Globalization, Sharia law, and cultural hybridity: A case of marriage preferences of young Bangladeshis

Gender, Sexuality, and the Authoritarian Personality

Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle East

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