WANG Li.Study on high-priced dowry and its reproduction mechanism——the empirical analysis of C town in Jinjiang city, Fujian Province [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2022,21(1):83-91.
WANG Li.Study on high-priced dowry and its reproduction mechanism——the empirical analysis of C town in Jinjiang city, Fujian Province [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2022,21(1):83-91. DOI: 10.13842/j.cnki.issn1671-816X.2022.01.010.
Study on high-priced dowry and its reproduction mechanism——the empirical analysis of C town in Jinjiang city, Fujian Province
High⁃priced dowry has constituted a common social fact in rural society of Jinjiang,Fujian province.It is found that the reproduction of high-priced dowry in Jinjiang turns out to be the result of local people’ practice under the local unique social structure:good economic conditions and obvious economic stratification of the local families constitute the objective premise ; the dependent status of rural women in Jinjiang countryside provides the inner driving power; the local intermarriage dominated by parents is the social carrier. The practice of high-price dowry in Jinjiang has broken the marriage exchange cycle of "bride-price and dowry", and has a relatively independent functional meaning. It enhances the status of women in the in-laws' family but cannot change the status of women dependence on the in-laws' family, and also excludes the daughters of poor class from the local marriage circle.