上海大学社会学院系列讲座

2017年第34讲总第504讲

报告题目：Is Love Blind? The Role of Hukou, Education, and Technology in Shaping Marriage Patterns in Shanghai

报告人：钱岳

不列颠哥伦比亚大学助理教授

主持人：计迎春

上海大学社会学院教授、东方学者

时间：2017年7月10日下午3:00-5:00

地点：校本部E308

讲座人简介：

Yue Qian (钱岳) is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). Her research interests focus on social demography, family, gender, and quantitative methods. Specifically, she has been studying how gender intersects with family and population processes, such as assortative mating, divisions of labor, parenthood, and migration, to shape individual well-being and societal inequality. She has conducted research on both East Asia and the United States. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Demographic Research, Social Science Research, and Social Science & Medicine.

讲座内容简介：

Intimate relationship, marriage, family, and gender relations are topics that make headlines. In this talk, I will introduce sociological approaches to studying spouse selection. The first part covers the use of log-linear models to investigate revealed preferences in marriage markets. My collaborator and I examine how hukou locality intersects with educational attainment to shape assortative marriage patterns among the post-80’s generation in Shanghai. The second part addresses the use of new technologies to investigate stated preferences in marriage markets. Using data gathered from online dating profiles, my collaborators and I analyze the attributes offered and sought by male and female online daters in Shanghai. Online dating is therefore used as a lens to understand modern coupling and gender differences in mating strategies during the Internet era in China. I will conclude by discussing the implications of the continuity and change in spouse selection for gender relations and social inequalities in China.