Ideology

"Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.” Sammy Cahn

            Young people used to think that if they found a person who will love them unconditionally, treat them like a princess or prince, and give gifts to them is the one that is compatible to them, the person they will fall in love with and they cannot imagine living the rest of their life without that person. So, they will marry that person and have children. This maybe an idealistic perspective of a person about marriage but this is based on media, observation and stories.

When two people used to get along very well to each other and have this so called spark between them is describe having a good chemistry which is the concept of chemistry as it applies to relationships. In Goethe 1809 novel, “Elective Affinities,” he further developed the idea of interpersonal chemistry, where he metaphorically compared the process of attraction between two people to a chemical reaction. In addition, recent neurological studies, such as Michael Liebowitz’s “The Chemistry of Love” (1983), have been able to describe the actual chemical processes that occur in the human body when a person is experiencing love. However, the understanding of the biological mechanisms that allow men and women to live are merely the starting point for understanding the human experience.     

Love as a cultural and social phenomenon can be perceived as one of the mechanisms human beings use in order to organize their world. Love is one of the processes through which human beings become attracted to one another, and in one of the way we have become accustomed to doing it in modern times, we seek a single partner with whom to fall in love with. For the purpose of forming a family, therefore, love may be one of the ways we use to select someone to have children with. Historically, however, mates have not often been chosen on the basis of love but rather—as previously noted—on the basis of convenience; at times mates are selected by the parents or families of the individuals to be married.

Love aims at and assists in the adjustment to frustrating experiences. To measure its effect on marriage it must be judged in its true form and not in poor falsifications. Seen in proper perspective, it has not only done no harm as a prerequisite to marriage, but it has mitigated the impact that a too- fast-moving and unorganized conversion to new socio- economic constellations has had upon our whole culture and it has saved monogamous marriage from complete disorganization.(Beigel 333)

Fowler, Ana Carolina (2007) "Love and Marriage: Through the Lens of Sociological Theories," Human

Architecture: Journal of theSociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 5: Iss. 2, Article 6. Retrieved March 30, 2012 from http://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol5/iss2/6

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