Cross Cultural Marriages A Sociological Exploration of Marriage and Family in India

Abstract

Marriage is one of the basic institutions, which may be regarded as the central feature of all forms of human society is right from tribal to highly industrialised ones. This institution has survived thousand or many be more years, without any significant change marriage relationship are experiencing dramatic change in contemporary times the custom of marriage was predicable until few years ago but now over the outcome is no more predictable. Now marriages do not happen between similar background people or even between the same sexes. Globalization and other forms of cultural development have changed the concept of marriage. Today, this is also obvious in traditional societies such as Egypt, where marriages used to occurs within the circle of family members and friends, but as the world transforms into a global village cross- cultural marriage becoming more common even in those traditional societies. newline