Family, sexuality, religion

Abstract

At first one analyses the position of young people towards family and marriage, taking one main issue into account: the passage from a model of marriage commanded by «reason» to another model in which «love-passion» prevails. The study of such a question is developped from the analysis of young people attitudes as to the sexuality and the division of domestic tasks between the young married people. In the second part one attempts to make a sociological approach of love and courtship, showing how the relations between lovers are subordinated to an amount of legitimations and rules established socially. At last one discusses the control operated by religion on the attitude of young people as to sexuality.