Social Lopsided Exchange: On High Bride Price in Rural Areas -- Taking Village X, Town Q in Heze County as an Example

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10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.201How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rural areas, culture revitalization, high bride price, rural civilization construction

Abstract

The betrothal gift is a peculiar social phenomenon. The high bride price reveals the some culture. The article analyzed the betrothal gift from the theoretical perspective of social exchange. It is essentially a medium of marriage exchange. With the development of modernization, the price of it in rural areas in China has soared and it gradually becomes a deformed custom. Through the study of the high bride price in rural areas to explore the reasons for its existence and the impacts, it contributes to curbing the rise of bride price, and the rural civilization.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaojie Gong
AU  - Xin Qiao
AU  - Jia Cong
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Social Lopsided Exchange: On High Bride Price in Rural Areas -- Taking Village X, Town Q in Heze County as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.201
DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.201
ID  - Gong2018/09
ER  -