Social Integration, Heterogeneity, and Divorce: The Case of the Swedish-speaking Population in Finland
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- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Acta Sociologica
- Vol. 40 (3) , 263-277
Abstract
The study compared marital stability in Finland with focus on the two language groups. The divorce rate was remarkably lower among the Swedish-speaking minority than among the Finnish-speaking majority. An explanation for this may be differences in social integration. The assumption about the effect of social integration was also supported by covariates measuring urbanization and individual migration. A hypothesis that marital homogamy reduces the divorce rate found support only with respect to the language of the spouses but not with respect to level of education or age.Keywords
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