La découverte du conjoint: II. Les scènes de rencontre dans l'espace social

Couples' Places of Meeting in Late 20th Century Britain: Class, Continuity and Change

“…France Girard (1974) and Bozon and Héran (1987, 1988, 1989 documented places and circumstances of meeting over a sixty year period in France. Girard identified relationships with socio-economic group and educational level (1974: 110), and variations in homogamy levels according to place of meeting (1974: 183).…”

“…Compared to the PIC and Gallup surveys, French data show fewer meetings in 'public' places and more in 'private' contexts (Bozon and Héran, 1988). Turning to the Netherlands, de Graaf and Kalmijn (2003Kalmijn ( : 1476 examined data on divorced people who had repartnered from a 1998 survey.…”

“…An examination of class-specific trends utilises a three category typology of places or contexts of meeting developed in France by Bozon and Héran (1988). Data from the most recent survey are used to examine the relationship between place of meeting and occupational class homogamy, and multivariate analyses of these data relate Bozon and Héran's typology to explanatory factors, including class, education and parental class.…”

The New Second Generation in Switzerland: Youth of Turkish and Former Yugoslav Descent in Zurich and Basel

“…Strategies to achieve this goal may sometimes entail selecting a spouse residing far away (Saraceno & Naldini 2001); in other words, homogamy is not synonymous with endogamy -the obligation to marry in the same community. Homogamy can be regarded not only as a social norm but as the consequence of the fact that sociability is socially framed (Bozon & Héran 2006). In the sociology of migration, the issue of partner choice has been traditionally reframed as a question of endogamy vs. exogamy, leaving the distinctive social parameter of homogamy somewhat out of focus.…”

“…'This argument has often been made for educational homogamy, because education is not only strongly related to income and status, but also to taste, values and lifestyles' (Kalmijn 1998). Burgess & Wallin (1943) argue that 'persons having relatively similar education are more likely to have a similar cultural outlook, the same universe of discourse, common interests, etc., and, accordingly, to have the basis for initiating and maintaining an enduring relationship' (Girard 1964;Bozon & Héran 2006).…”