Marriage and family among the Bashkirs

Marriage and family among the Bashkirs


Burkhanova F.B.

Dr. Sci. (Sociology), Prof., Department of Sociology and Work with Youth, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia burhanova.flura@mail.ru

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Burkhanova F.B. Marriage and family among the Bashkirs. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2015. No 8. P. 66-74




Abstract

The article analyzes modernization processes in the family-marital sphere of the Bashkir population and discusses features of the dynamics of marital structure changes, common-law marriages, divorces, ethnic composition of families, motives for religious marriage ceremony, gender division of family duties and reproductive behavior on the basis of statistics and surveys.


Keywords
family; marriage; common-law marriage; divorces; religious marriage ceremony; ethnically mixed marriages; the Bashkirs
Content No 8, 2015