Kennis of cultuur? Het belang van opleiding en deelname aan schone kunsten bij partnerkeuze in Nederland tussen 1948 en 1992

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Knowledge or Culture? The Importance of Education and Participation in the High Arts in Partner Selection in the Netherlands between 1948 and 1992. To examine the role of educational level and cultural participation in spouse selection in the Netherlands from 1948 to 1992, interview data from a published 1992/93 family survey (N = 773 respondents) were analyzed using zero-order and residual correlation models. The results showed that the exchange of the wife's cultural and husband's educational resources has decreased over time; culture seems to have lost its importance in mate selection, challenging predictions from Pierre Bourdieu's theories of compensatory strategies (1972) maintaining that higher status groups increasingly distinguish themselves by higher standards of social conduct. 3 Tables, 2 Figures, 50 References. Adapted from the source document.