In the recent decades the family pattern in the world has gone through many changes. At the present the values and attitudes of the youth have undergone many changes also. The researches show that having sexual relationship before marriage is becoming common more than any other time. One of these premarital relationships is cohabitation which is growing in big cities like Tehran. This pattern indicates living together of couples without being married. The goal of this study is to know what the subjects interpret their behavior and what appropriate social situations helped to this phenomenon to emerge. In this research 21 men and women of that experienced cohabitation were interviewed. The findings show that this pattern of relationship is the product of modernization process and the diffusion of certain values to Iran; the process which started by coming of technological products and changes that took place in economic situation and then gradually encompassed the entire fabrics of the society. Cohabitation is part of this grand socio-economical and cultural change in recent years
Azad Armaki, T., Sharifi Saee, M. H., Isari, M., & Talebi, S. (2012). Cohabitation; the New Family Pattern in Tehran. Sociological Cultural Studies, 3(1), 43-77.
MLA
Taghi Azad Armaki; Mohammad Hossein Sharifi Saee; Maryam Isari; Sahar Talebi. "Cohabitation; the New Family Pattern in Tehran". Sociological Cultural Studies, 3, 1, 2012, 43-77.
HARVARD
Azad Armaki, T., Sharifi Saee, M. H., Isari, M., Talebi, S. (2012). 'Cohabitation; the New Family Pattern in Tehran', Sociological Cultural Studies, 3(1), pp. 43-77.
VANCOUVER
Azad Armaki, T., Sharifi Saee, M. H., Isari, M., Talebi, S. Cohabitation; the New Family Pattern in Tehran. Sociological Cultural Studies, 2012; 3(1): 43-77.
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