This study is intended to identify the dichotomized structure of both sexes in the marriage life of husband and wife. This study used, as a qualitative method, a deep interview on the discrepancy between a dyad about their marriage realities. 20 coupl...
This study is intended to identify the dichotomized structure of both sexes in the marriage life of husband and wife. This study used, as a qualitative method, a deep interview on the discrepancy between a dyad about their marriage realities. 20 couples were interviewed by the ethnomethodology. And the main results are as follows.
In terms of marriage processes, husbands showed an active tendency while wives a passive one. This seems attributable to the effects of socialization. And in terms of role performance, roles were divided into public and private between dyads in the middle class, while couples together performed public roles in the lower class, but did not do private ones together.
Consequently, couples were revealed to sympathize only half of each other's understanding and sympathy, and each of them recognized in a way that marriage realities between a couple are different. However, the origins of these discrepancy are a lot related to a society with the double standard, a structural division of role, and to discriminatory social areas, there should be alternatives for the realities in this respect.