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What does hypergamy mean?

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Noun
  1. Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself.
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The social results of hypergamy, when commonly practised, are highly injurious.
They have the same complicated arrangement of exogamy and hypergamy as the Khatris, and will take food from that caste.
Hockings and Merchant collaborate in the final essay to examine hypergamy and hypogamy in pre-modern Kerala.
Owing to these rules, hypergamy, the marriage of a wealthy woman of lesser status to a man of superior status was not uncommon in the old regime.
Hypergamy is the practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status than oneself.
Family connections help here, and hypergamy for both men and women is very important.

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