Research On Widow Remarriage Under The Social Change Perspective

With the development of human society, the institution of marriage experiences changes.Remarried population increase and a considerable part of widowed women exist, so that widowed women widowed and marriage restructuring phenomenon happened. This study attempts to longitudinal comparison by China multigenerational population database CMGPD-LN and CFPS2010/CGSS2006, comparing factors behind the widowed women remarry behavior and changes of the remarriage in Chinese society. So we could see shifts in the ideas of widowed women in the tide of social change and the effects of social structures on individual behaviors.The paper try to discuss the three theories about widowed women’s remarriage in the traditional and modern societies, which include Economic resources constraint, kin control theory of remarriage and Culture Cybernetic, in order to establish research hypothesis and its verification starting from existing research on three kinds of theories.This study found that social influence factors of three theories mentioned, traditional and modern societies exist the factors of “change” and “unchanged”.For example, in terms of kinship control, to give birth to boys has a decisive influence to widow remarriage. This point has not changed in the traditional society or in the modern society, and the influence is strong. And the influence of other members of the family——parents- in-laws, cross-cousin, parents, brothers and sisters, in the traditional patriarchal society, the elder in the family governance and decision-making has supreme authority. Data analysis showed that the father-in-law alive and widow remarriage is negatively related to, it means that a family if the father-in-law is alive, then the possibility of widow remarriage smaller. And mother living on widow remarriage did not significantly affect, which and is thought to be the widow was forced to remarry and mother-in-law bewilders about intuition is not consistent. In addition, with traditional historical research that the widow remarriage in a great extent by widow brother-in-law,brother-in-law of different conclusions, this study found that widow remarriage with her late husband’s number of siblings did not significantly influence. From the perspective of cultural change in the traditional society, lower possibility of widow remarriage in the prosperous economy area; while in modern society, compared with rural widow,widow of the city are less likely to remarry. This may be the result of economic impact.In summary, this paper try to find social factors with Chinese characteristics by the method of quantitative analysis, and in the search for the impact of cultural interpretation widow of group behavior from the “change” and “no change”.