The use of northern Sweden as a representative of the whole of nineteenth century Europe is peculiar, especially due to the contrast between European countries at the time. Van Leeuwen and Maas used Sundsvall as a case study, and found “no sign of decreasing homogamy”. However, in more industrialised European countries where …show more content…
They perform a thorough and in-depth analysis of 5472 cases of marriages in the time frame of 1800 to 1889 to identify trends of occupation homogamy. However, there is little analysis of any other types of homogamy, such as religious, educational, geographic, and age. This can be problematic, because this analysis does not cover the broad scope of their research question. By focusing on only one dimension of partner choice, the authors are limiting themselves in possible explanations for trends, such as the importance of age and place of