Thursday, February 25, 2010

Title of the article - Debate: Arranged marriage
Title of reference work - Should arranged marriages be outlawed?
Date of publication - 11:28, 23 November 2009

Resource searched - Debatepedia
Keywords used - Arranged marriage
Date of search - 02/25/2010
Number of hits - 1



Thursday, February 18, 2010

RJA #5b: Periodical Articles

Name(s) of author(s) - Akhmadeeva, L. & Kusch, J.

Title of article - Bitter fruits of arranged marriage: a case study of North Cyprus.

Title of periodical - Sex Education

Volume and issue number (if available) - Vol. 9 Issue 3

Date - Aug2009

Pages on which article appears - p307-318

Resource searched - EBSCOhost

Keywords used - Arranged marriage

Date of search - 02/25/2010

Number of hits - 423

Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) - 1-20

Name(s) of author(s) - Enright, Máiréad

Title of article - Choice, Culture and the Politics of Belonging: The Emerging Law of Forced and Arranged Marriage

Title of periodical - Modern Law Review

Volume and issue number (if available) - Vol. 72 Issue 3

Date - May2009

Pages on which article appears - p331-359

Resource searched - EBSCOhost

Keywords used - Arranged marriage

Date of search - 02/25/2010

Number of hits - 423

Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) - 21-40

RJA #5a: Books

Author - George Peter Monger
Title - Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
Type of Material - Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Place of publication - Santa Barbara, Calif
Publisher - ABC-CLIO
Date of publication - c2004
LC Classification - GT2690 .M65 2004
OCLC No. - 56064942

Resource searched - Auraria Library
Keywords used - arranged marriage
Date of search - 2/18/2010
Number of hits - 39
Relevance of hits - 1-12



Editors - Raeann R. Hamon, Bron B. Ingoldsby
Title - Mate selection across cultures
Publisher - Sage Publications
Place of publication - Thousand Oaks, Calif
Date of publication - c2003
LC Classification - HQ801 .M236 2003
Contents - The mate selection process in the United States / Bron B. Ingoldsby -- "It's better in the Bahamas" : from relationship initiation to marriage / Raeann R. Hamon -- Mate selection preferences and practices in Ecuador and Latin America / Paul L. Schvaneveldt -- Mate selection in Trinidad and Tobago : a multireligious, multicultural perspective / Winston Seegobin and Kristen M. Tarquin -- Tradition and change in family and marital processes : selecting a marital partner in Ghana / Baffour K. Takyi -- Connecting generations : Kamba and Maasai paths to marriage in Kenya / Stephan M. Wilson, Lucy W. Ngige, and Linda J. Trollinger -- Love, courtship, and marriage from a cross-cultural perspective : the upper middle class Egyptian example / Bahira Sherif-Trask -- Couple formation in Israeli Jewish society / Shulamit N. Ritblatt -- Marriage in Turkey / Nuran Hortasu -- Couple formation practices in Spain / J. Roberto Reyes -- The development of intimate relationships in the Netherlands / Manfred H.M. van Dulmen -- Mate selection in contemporary India : love marriages versus arranged marriages / Nilufer P. Medora -- The transition of courtship, mate selection, and marriage in China / Yan R. Xia and Zhi G. Zhou -- Multiplicity of paths to couple formation in Japan / Colleen I. Murray and Naoko Kimura.

Resource searched - Auraria Library
Keywords used - arranged marriage
Date of search - 2/18/2010
Number of hits - 39
Relevance of hits - 1-12

Monday, February 15, 2010

RJA #4c: Research Question Check

http://holden1013.blogspot.com/2010/02/rja-3c-research-question.html#comment-form
http://dickeng1020.blogspot.com/2010/02/rja3b-rja3c.html#comment-form

RJA# 4b: Search Strings

+love OR +arrange marriage
+Divorce rate NEAR america
+love +marriage
+"love marriage" +"arrange marriage"
+love marriage -same sex
+"Arrange marriage" NOT "Forced Marriage"
+"divorce rate" +"arranged marriage"

RJA #4a: Keywords–Using the FOREST LOG

Love or Arrange marriage

FOrms: Love, Loves, Loved
Arrange, Arranges, Arranged
Marriage, Marriages, Marriaged

RElated, ST: Love- Heart, Valentine, Red, Lust, Emotional
Arrange- Prepared, Set, Schedule, Fix
Marriage- Couple, Commitment, Equal

LOG: Directory > Society and Culture > Relationships > Marriage > Arranged Marriage
Directory > Society and Culture > Relationships > Romance

Monday, February 8, 2010

RJA #3c: Research Question

  • Do you think it is still ok to have an arranged marriage?
  • Do you think an arranged marriage is as same as force marraige?
  • Is having an arrange marriage really saves you from getting an divorce?
  • An arrange marriage really denies your freedom of choice?

RJA #3a: Research Topic Exploration

I went to google to begin my research on arranged marriage and love marriage. First i went to wikipedia to get some general ideas about both of them. Then I went to different links which was posted in the wikipedia website. Each of them have their pros and cons to it. I also searched on delicious to check on what other people have posted about love or arranged marriage and their thought about it. Debatepedia helped me alot on the pros and the cons of each marraige.
Down below are some of the website i went to and it is also posted on my delicious account.


http://delicious.com/pranai_subba21
http://www.yourtango.com/20085574/what-arranged-marriage-can-teach-us.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Arranged_marriage
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Reality-of-Arranged-Marriages&id=606
http://wiki.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Arranged_marriage#Marriage_stability:Can_arranged_marriages_make_more_successful_marriages.3F

RJA #3b: Research Topic Focus

  • An arranged marraiage have 5-7% divorce rate where in USA its has about 50% divorce rate.
  • In arranged marriage, family decide on your marriage whereas its different in love marraige.
  • To denied an arranged marriage is as seen as disrespect toward the family.
  • In arranged marriage, it is usually a bond between two families rather than the realtionship with the couple.
  • Love can grow out of arranged marriage.
  • In some culture, arranged marriage is chosen by the matchmakers, community elders, or a religious elders.
  • There are also many different types of marriage such as child marraige, exchange marraige, diplomatic marraige and many more.

Monday, February 1, 2010

RJA #2b: Research Topic

Marriage! When you hear this word what comes into your mind? I used to picture it there being a dad, a mom, and their little kids, with a pet dog name Rex. But that’s not all marriage is about is it? I chose to do my research on love and arrange marriage. Because where I’m from it’s usually an arranged marriage but here in U.S most citizens usually married with their partner for love and sometimes they don’t even married but just live with each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. That makes me want to think why it’s so different in U.S. than in from where I am from.
Marriages have been going on for a very long time, but there are always different reasons behind each marriage. Some married for love, others married for family business for money, political marriage to gain power, or just because of their class. There had been a lot of arguments on the pros and cons on arrange or love marriage. People say having an arrange marriage usually last forever because they will get to know each other during their married life but it can also end in disaster because there is a risk you might not get along. For love marriage, people married each other because they feel comfortable and love each other but it also have its bad side to it such as you might get bored with your partner because you already know too much of each other. I know for the fact is arrange marriage is usually chosen by your parents depending on what’s going to be good for their child and not considering about whether they like each other.
In my country there have been a lot of arrange marriage going on for the fact that my dad and mom got married but my dad said their marriage was love and arrange marriage, but judging from my parents relationship, it looks like they don’t know much about each other anymore and because of that I think for my parent it was mostly an arrange marriage for both of them. Now days I usually here this word love and arrange marriage together but, is there really such thing as an love and arrange marriage or is it still love or arrange marriage?