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SUMMARY:‘Commitment and the changing sequence of cohabitation\, childbea
 ring\, and marriage’ - Professor Ann Berrington (ESRC Centre for Populat
 ion Change\, University of Southampton)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151105T140000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151105T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In the United Kingdom\, standard\, traditional sequences of fa
 mily events have been replaced by a de-standardized life course\; marriage
  is postponed and no longer necessary for childbearing\; unmarried cohabit
 ation has increased. New sequencing raises questions about the meaning of 
 cohabitation and marriage in peoples’ lives. This paper analyses data co
 llected within a series of focus groups conducted in the UK. It asks wheth
 er the new sequencing of life events implies a shift in commitment in coha
 bitation\, potentially giving rise to new expressions of commitment and un
 derstandings of cohabitation. We find that personal commitment is similar 
 in cohabiting and marital relationships\, but that marriage is perceived t
 o embody greater moral and structural commitment. Public displays of commi
 tment are increasingly occurring in other ways\, such as childbearing and 
 joint mortgages. Although commitment often grows over time\, this progress
 ion is not necessarily talked about in relation to the timing of childbear
 ing. We conclude that commitment levels are no longer ascribed solely by u
 nion type\, but rather by other life events and the couple’s own perceiv
 ed level of commitment.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Ann Berrington (ESRC Centre 
 for Population Change\, University of Southampton)
LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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SUMMARY:‘Divergences between the law of marriage and its social meaning:
  are same-sex marriages unique? - Dr Scot Peterson (Department of Politics
 \, University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151112T140000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151112T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Few things demonstrate the importance of population aging as c
 learly as the shift in policies and opinions concerning same-sex relations
 hips. Although same-sex sexual conduct was decriminalized in the Sexual Of
 fences Act 1967\, twenty years later\, in section 28 of the Local Governme
 nt Act of 1988\, local authorities were prohibited from ‘intentionally p
 romot[ing] homosexuality or or pubilish[ing] material’ with the intent t
 o do so. A further twenty years on\, in the Civil Partnership Act 2004 the
  Labour government introduced same-sex civil partnerships for same-sex cou
 ples\, which were legally equivalent to marriage. Employees of local autho
 rities were required to sanction them. Finally\, in 2014 it became possibl
 e for same-sex couples to marry. This rapid change\, which took place in l
 ess than fifty years\, means that older people have had to adapt relativel
 y quickly to a fundamental social change. This talk will discuss some of t
 he research that underlies Scot Peterson’s and Iain McLean’s book\, Le
 gally Married: Love and Law in the UK and the US\, including the historica
 l development of marriage law and the rapid acceptance of same-sex marriag
 e.\nSpeakers:\nDr Scot Peterson (Department of Politics\, University of Ox
 ford)
LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED  'Cohabitation\, Bigamy and Irregular Marriage in Scotla
 nd\, 1855-1939'
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151119T140000Z
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LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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SUMMARY:‘Focus on Partnerships: Discourses on cohabitation and marriage 
 throughout Europe and Australia’ - Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris (Associate 
 Professor in Demography\, University of Southampton)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151126T140000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151126T153000Z
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d4faced7-66ab-4c19-9674-281b5bbba417/
DESCRIPTION:Across the industrialized world\, more people are living toget
 her without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cros
 s-nationally using quantitative data\, few have compared union formation u
 sing qualitative data. This talk will present findings from a project that
  has used focus group research to compare social norms on cohabitation and
  marriage in Australia and nine countries in Europe (see Special Collectio
 n in Demographic Research). We conducted 7-8 focus groups in each country 
 using a standardized questionnaire and then coded each discussion\, analys
 ed the results\, and produced a country-specific chapter on a particular t
 heme. We also collaborated on an overview paper that synthesized the overa
 ll findings of the project. The results from each country describe a speci
 fic picture of union formation. However\, three themes emerge repeatedly i
 n all focus groups: commitment\, testing\, and freedom. The pervasiveness 
 of these concepts suggests that marriage and cohabitation have distinct me
 anings\, with marriage representing a stronger level of commitment.  Nonet
 heless\, other discourses emerged in the focus groups suggesting that coha
 bitation has multiple meanings. Taken as a whole this study contributes to
  and challenges current explanations for family change by pointing out how
  social norms shape partnership behavior. In addition\, the project inform
 s quantitative research by suggesting areas for future research\, but also
  emphasizing the need for nuances in interpretation. \nSpeakers:\nDr Brien
 na Perelli-Harris (Associate Professor in Demography\, University of South
 ampton)
LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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SUMMARY:‘Family context and marriageability: how one's parents\, sibling
 s and past family history affect one's attractiveness to marriage partners
  in Japan’ - Dr Ekaterina Hertog (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies\,
  University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151203T140000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151203T153000Z
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/441f4cac-f519-4204-9c3b-602259586059/
DESCRIPTION:We examine how family context affects one’s desirability to 
 potential marriage partners among the customers of a large Japanese marria
 ge agency. The agency data provide us a unique opportunity to isolate the 
 impact of family characteristics as well as socio-economic control variabl
 es on the “demand side” of marriage market interactions. Japan is an i
 mportant test case of theories about marriage formation in societies where
  family and kinship are important institutions – theories that so far ha
 ve mostly been tested on Western data. We show that traits associated with
  resource commitments\, such as living with or having to support family me
 mbers or being an only child\, reduce attractiveness. Natal family charact
 eristics that can be read as proxy of a lower social background\, namely h
 aving three or more siblings\, also reduce one’s desirability\, as does 
 a history of divorce. We also find support for the culturally specific arg
 ument that expectations of care associated with being the oldest son reduc
 e attractiveness.\nSpeakers:\nDr Ekaterina Hertog (Nissan Institute of Jap
 anese Studies\, University of Oxford)
LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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SUMMARY:‘Demographic change – the evolving health challenges’.  - Pr
 of Sarah Harper (Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)\, 
 Professor Robyn Norton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Hea
 lth)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151015T170000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151015T183000
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DESCRIPTION:Please note that the Institute seminar on 15th October is part
  of the Oxford Martin School 10 year celebration Seminar Series - Ideas In
 to Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research.\n\nThe Marriage and Cohab
 itation Series thus starts on Week two.\n\nSpeakers:\nProf Sarah Harper (D
 irector of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)\, Professor Robyn No
 rton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health)
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre at the Oxford Martin School 
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SUMMARY:‘Marrying out’ for love: women’s narratives of polygyny and 
 alternative marriage choices in contemporary Senegal’ - Dr Hélène Neve
 u Kringelbach (Oxford Diaspora Programme Project Leader\, University of Ox
 ford and Lecturer in African Studies\, University College London)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151029T140000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151029T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the ways in which childhood and youth expe
 riences of living in polygamous households shape the life aspirations and 
 marriage choices of middle-class\, Muslim Senegalese women. In contrast to
  an enduring popular discourse according to which African women live happi
 ly with polygamy\, my research shows how women’s increasingly common cho
 ice to ‘marry out’ is explicitly linked\, in many cases\, to painful e
 xperiences of living with polygamy. In these narratives\, the misfortune a
 ffecting female relatives is consistently interpreted as a consequence of 
 polygamy.\n	Classical anthropological studies of polygyny in Africa have a
 nalyzed the institution from the perspective of a dominance of social juni
 ors by the ‘elders’\, from an economic perspective (the need to mobili
 ze labour in ‘wealth-in-people’ societies)\, as a marker of male prest
 ige or through African ideals of sexuality and reproduction. In most of th
 ese studies\, polygamy is examined as a coherent system\, and women’s in
 dividual narratives are rarely the focus of attention. This paper goes som
 e way in addressing this gap by focusing on women’s narratives and their
  own sense of agency in marriage. It is suggested that these narratives pr
 ovide moral legitimacy to marriage choices often made against the wishes o
 f senior family members. The paper draws on multi-sited research carried o
 ut since 2011 as part of the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diaspora Programme\,
  as well as on longer-term fieldwork in urban Senegal since 2002.\n\nSpeak
 ers:\nDr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Oxford Diaspora Programme Project Lea
 der\, University of Oxford and Lecturer in African Studies\, University Co
 llege London)
LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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SUMMARY:‘Childlessness\, cohabitation and partnership history in Great B
 ritain’ - John Haskey (Department of Social Policy and Intervention\, Un
 iversity of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151022T140000
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DESCRIPTION:The presentation will recount some exploratory work which was 
 carried out following an earlier project on childlessness – which formed
  a chapter entitled: Childlessness: choice and circumstances*. The project
  considered the patterns and trends of childlessness in Europe - and also 
 the factors associated with childlessness in Great Britain\, including\, b
 riefly\, cohabitation. This latter aspect was subsequently explored furthe
 r (which will form the presentation) - firstly the overall context: the tr
 ends in childlessness\; the growth in the prevalence of cohabitation\; and
  the profile of the marital and cohabitational histories of women and men 
 in Great Britain. Then\, using data from the British Household Panel Study
  from which childlessness and marital and cohabitational histories may be 
 derived\, patterns of childlessness are examined by a number of factors: n
 umber of cohabitations\; mean age at first partnership\; way in which the 
 first partnership ended\; total time spent outside partnerships\; and odds
  ratios of childlessness (not) being independent of marital/cohabitational
  histories.\n*in: Fertility rates and population decline: no time for chil
 dren? edited by Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch\, 2013\, Palgrave Macmillan
 .\n\nSpeakers:\nJohn Haskey (Department of Social Policy and Intervention\
 , University of Oxford)
LOCATION:66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall) (Seminar Room at 66 Banbury Road\, 
 Oxford OX2 6PR)\, 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
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