Marriage As A Social Norm Analysis

Dan Loughlin

Discussion 6

I think that this practice is still used today because it has become apart of the culture when people get married. Over the years it has always become natural and it is assumed that women will take the last name of the people they are going to marry. I think that it is assumed that that the women will take the last name of the man and not the other way around because it is thought that the husband is the masculine part of the marriage. In the past, it was thought of as a women’s father giving them over to the new husband. This can be evident at weddings when the father of the bride walks the bride down the isle. I think that this concept has just become such a social norm in our society and people