Convenience toe
Convenience toe (from Latin conveniens "consistent, appropriate, suitable": agreement) describes a marriage that is concluded with consideration for the social origin of the spouses. In contrast to a love marriage , it is about a "befitting" marriage, for example the rank, external circumstances or assets of the spouses should match.
In the bourgeois era, social class played an important role in marriage - an improper marriage ( mesalliance ) often had far-reaching social consequences. A marriage toe was entered into either out of one's own conscious consideration of the conventions , but such a marriage was often arranged by the families , although it did not necessarily have to be a forced marriage .
Today, the old-fashioned term conventional toe is rarely used and then usually describes a marriage of convenience , in which the partners enter into the marriage of their own volition, not out of mutual affection, but for the purpose of a special private agreement, for example to agree to homosexuality in front of the family or society hide.
Generally speaking, the term is also used to describe entering into a partnership between groups such as political parties with a common goal or for mutual benefit.
See also
- Isogamy (marriage within the same class)
Individual proof
- ↑ Convenience . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 53.