Introduction – Marriage is a vital social institution. It perform in pot at function & Various laws / regulation like proscriptive, prescriptive & preferential regulate m’age & ensure societies’s survival, continuity & effectiveness. These function are (add examples in all )
Biological Function
- Reproduction i.e continuity of human race & society thr channelised reproduction
- Legitimate mode of sexual gratification & permanent mating
- Regulates & socially validates long term legitimate sexual relation e.g Nayar
Economic Function
- Division of Labour – Individual (♂ & ♀) & society level E.g Tibetan & khasa
- Economic control – Economic control over spouse’s labour & property
- Economic cooperation B/w ♂& ♀ – Ensure survival of individual in society.
- Provide economic substances to group
Legal Function – providing legitimacy to offspring
Emotional Function
- Providing platform for psychological & emotional cooperation between the couple & between families of bride & groom.
Social Functions
- Foundation of institution of family → propagation of family → society
- Alliance theory
- widening network of social r/l → ensuring various kinds of co-op & acquisition of new kin groups
- Impacting Socialisation
Education – Enculturation of child – longest period of dependency in human infant
Case Study – Rivera About Group Marriage
- As marriage perform many above cited functions . Which can’t be performed by an other group. Also as group m’age can’t lead to establishment of well – defined family. → so Acc to River this form of m’age never existed in any society.
Conclusion – Thus these functions of m’age make m’age a universal social institution. Also, it perform other different function in diff societies according to needs.
