There are limits to our ability to generalize our conclusions to posit a global process. As such this study is suggestive of a larger movement towards new forms of courtship that favor individual autonomy, the pursuit to satisfy personal desires, even at the expense of interpersonal interests. Our findings support the theoretical and interview data of the above study and work by many other researchers e. Regnerus builds on Giddens' work by showing how sex, love, and marriage have separated from each other, to the extent that sex is construed as an independent feature of the individual and therefore not part of a coupled, interdependent, construct such as love or family.
As our study supports these positions we have confidence that our findings, if extended across more cultures would not be substantially different, only more refined.
Keywords: courtship process, sequence analysis, prototype analysis, cross-cultural study. Victor de Munck , Vilnius University more.
The study is divided into three related themes and claims. Each courtship experience is unique β a wide range of practices are feasible; even so one can discern cultural practices that vary along a limited array of real-world events. The events constitute the main series of events of courtship process in the four cultures studied in the context of autonomous mate selection. Things are different in arranged marriage systems.
Yet, it appears that autonomous mate selection is everywhere replacing arranged marriage practices. Second, we will show that there are prototypical models of modern and traditional courtship processes.
