hypergamy
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- noun
- /haɪˈpɜrɡəmi/
- Specialized
- So once men and women both know like oh women, hypergamy is a real thing.
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Watch on YouTubeThat's a fact because hypergamy looks across and up.
- That's a fact because hypergamy looks across and up.
- So you can kind of create hypergamy even when it doesn't really exist at some objective level.
- There's the hypergamy effect and that is creating a lot of distrust in, in Western society between males and females.
- But the second part is hypergamy, which is if you can get that specific female herself and drag her down a little bit, perhaps there's a chance that she might date you.
- But what I want to know is, hypergamy is real.
- There's this word in your book pronounced hypergamy.
- So once men and women both know like oh women, hypergamy is a real thing.
- So would you start with your background, how you got into this and why hypergamy, It's a very important part of sex.
Examples
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In the manosphere, this can manifest in discussions of women's hypergamy.
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All right, Hypergamy is a topic that gets a lot of pushback, but it is what it is.
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Hypergamy, then, is also expressed much more frequently in women around the world than in men.
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That's a fact because hypergamy looks across and up.
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There's the hypergamy effect and that is creating a lot of distrust in, in Western society between males and females.
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Hypergamy and hypogamy are, to some extent, intended to accumulate or increase one's prestige.
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By focusing exclusively on malignant or unbridled hypergamy, the manosphere paints a picture of women's mating strategies as "all bad."
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Mayer (1973:16) writes, "the largely endogamous nature of Fiji Indian castes kept these alive as separate social units, and through hypergamy a measure of their former rank was maintained."
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Both Mayer (1967) and Brown (1981) pointed out that the degrees of caste and varna endogamy and hypergamy indicate that there is still some degree of caste division along traditional lines.
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Many sociologists study hypergamy to understand how social status influences marriage choices.
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypergamy = hyper + gamy
Although the word contains the classical prefix hyper- and the combining form gamy, the specialized meaning of marrying or partnering upward in social status is not easily recoverable for an average learner.
Etymology
Hypergamy comes from Greek parts: hyper- meaning 'over' or 'above' and -gamy from gamos meaning 'marriage', the same part you see in polygamy and monogamy. So, hypergamy literally means 'marrying up', which is why it refers to choosing a partner with higher social or economic status.