婚姻市场要价:理解农村婚姻交换现象的一个框架

本文基于各地农村大量的婚姻现象,抽象出婚姻市场要价这一理解当前农村婚姻交换的理论框架。该理论以农村人口流动中婚姻市场形成与农村婚姻资源配置的结构性失衡为背景,阐述了婚姻财礼的性质,以及婚姻市场中女方要价的可欲性、可能性与基础性,论述了男方婚姻负担的表现形态,并呈现了婚姻变迁所带来的一系列社会后果。

Charging on Marriage Market:A Framework to Understand the Exchange within Rural Marriage

This research is based on a large amount of marriage events.Aschargingdoes exist in the marriage market,a theory is abstracted from it to help understand the exchange within marriage event in the rural areas of China.The theory is founded on the structural disequilibrium in resource allocation in the marriage market.The disequilibrium is caused by floating population in rural areas.The theory elaborates the properties of betrothal gifts as well as the motivation,the probability and the very basis of the bri...