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Hypergamy
Name(s):
Marrying up socially
Nature
The custom forbidding women of a particular social status to marry a man with lower status. They are allowed to marry men of their own or higher status.
Broader
Pursuit of personal prestige
Social impediments to marriage
Aggravated by
Snobbery
Social stratification
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems