Explain rules and norms of Marriage.
1. Marriage is allowed by most of the societies between the two particular individuals of opposite sex.
2. In the modern socities, there are certain restrictions on choosing a marriage partner. Under the rules of endogamy, a person should marry only within one's own restricted group such as caste, religion, race etc.
3. Exogamy refers to the rules of avoidance in marital relationship. Every communityu, prohibits its members from having marital relationship with cetain persons. Under this rule, marriage among close relatives especially kins and same clan is prohibited.
4. Incest taboo is perhaps the most prominent feature of exogamic rule of mateselection in almost every society. Marriage of father-daughter, mother-son, brother-sister is unknown the world over.
5. In a society where monogamy (a husband and a wife) prevails, a man or a woman can marry only after the death of the spouse or the dissolution of marriage.
6. In some castes, tribals and muslims polygamy prevails. Polygamy is that arrangement of marriage in which either a woman has more than one husband or a man has more than one wife.
