Andrew J. Cherlin is an American sociologist, born in 1948, focusing on family life in the United States and around the world, and an emeritus professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. A social demographer, he is a former president of the Population Association of America; his books include The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (2009) and Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America (2014). His most highly cited article, The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage (2004), argued that marriage has evolved from a marker of conformity to a marker of prestige, introducing the term capstone marriage; he is also the author of a leading textbook on the sociology of family life, Public and Private Families: An Introduction.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountThe Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage (2004), arguing marriage evolved from a marker of conformity to a marker of prestige, and introducing the term capstone marriage 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (2009) 1 Connections
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Cherlin The Marriage-Go-Round analyzed the American pattern of frequent marriage, divorce and remarriage compared with other wealthy nations.
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Andrew J. Cherlin (9 September 1948) is an American sociologist, focusing on family life in the U.S. and around the world.
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His most highly cited article is "The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage" (2004) in which he argued that marriage has evolved from a "marker of conformity" to a "marker of prestige," and he introduced the term "capstone marriage."
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His books include The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (2009) and Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America (2014).
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