What do sociologists think about the importance of marriage ?

Question

and how does marriage affect current isssues in modern britain

Answer 1

sounds like you are trying to answer a homework assignment!

Answer 2

I'm not sure, but are you talking about s*x in a Christian marriage?  

Answer 3

sigmund freud is very into sexual relationships, hes the most famous psychologist in history.

Answer 4

I'm glad you have asked this question. I can't speak for all sociologists although I believe I have the majority of my peers with me on this one. You mean, of course, is there a body of informed work based on empircal evidence?  and of course, there is. We can discount the anecdotal ramblings of Donald G. Dirkin's team who's 1992 'Study' caused the tiny stir in the media that year. A 'slow news' year, I believe. The nub of my own paper is that marriage is a form of cement and could be said to hold the bricks of society together. (Or as my erstwhile colleague Phillipa Grochuck points out, keeps the bricks apart: possibly the more important function.) We'll that's a debate for another time.

Answer 5

Less needed since contraception more effective, women working and not dependent on males income, more secular society caring less about tradition and religious instruction....but...we still all love the romance, the commitment (if only for a short while) and of course, wedding dresses!! ;)  

Look at Parsons (Functionalism) and Socialist Feminism and then add in some figures on the cost of weddings/popularity/divorce rates and numbers of people going to church to support your answer.