By Eilert Sundt, Odin W. Anderson
ISBN-10: 0813805880
ISBN-13: 9780813805887
Ilert Sundt (1817-1875), a Lutheran minister and amazing self-taught sociologist, spent two decades hiking throughout his nation to check social stipulations in nineteenth-century Norway. His paintings took him to turning out to be towns, small farms, and rural villages, the place he puzzled either the rich and the operating sessions approximately their lives. He released 11 volumes of his empirical learn findings on such wide-ranging topics as marriage, Gypsy existence, alcoholism, mortality, and - in quantity four, the paintings translated right here - illegitimacy. Sundt was once one of many world's first field-workers in social reports and one of many first to exploit the social survey as a device of research. to collect info to help his observations, he despatched specified questionnaires to Lutheran pastors. He relied additionally on church documents and the census for statistical details. His paintings had a level of methodological sophistication unequalled in its day, and his reviews are nonetheless thought of classics via sociologists. His function, as he said many times, used to be social reform, that statesmen and legislators may still . . . utilize this data of their fight to manipulate and administer for the nice of all. He observed his paintings as a small contribution to enlightenment into stipulations at the present time (that) can result in higher perception day after today. previously, this quantity of Sundt's actually notable paintings has now not been on hand in English. scholars of sociology, cultural historical past, and Scandinavian stories will locate Sexual Customs in Rural Norway a major contribution to the physique of literature on nineteenth-century Norway and rural lifestyles mostly, in addition to a pioneering instance of descriptive sociological idea and perform.
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In olden days when the authority of the father was so great and the father stipulated elaborate conditions for the daughter’s marriage, when the representative of the suitor came to convey his wish it is very unlikely that it occurred to the boy to call on the girl at night. ) The marriages which were men tioned in the sagas, and which were begun by bargaining or purchase, as it was called, and also regarded only as family contracts, ended very unhappily for both parties, and likely this happened often to marriages for the same reason in our country!
These visits never take place on the sly but are very open and known to parents and everyone else, whether the girl sleeps in a small room in the house or has her bed in the animal barn. At times the girl lets her devoted admirers wait long and well before she decides which one she might prefer. The one who finally discovers his fortune then goes to the parents to show he is serious, that is, to court. (Here one is directed to the unusual dividing up of land in Dalerne. Each child inherits a part of the piece of land which the father owned, and thereby in time the land is divided into numberless small pieces 20-24 feet long and 6-8 feet wide.
This same way of thinking, by which the older ones sought to direct marriage matters to their own advantage, also influenced the young. It became a manner of speaking that to marry was the same as to improve your lot. ” Rut answered: “I have had it on my mind a long time but have been uncertain; now I will nevertheless do as you suggest. ” And then there is a detailed description how it went with a man by the name of M0rrd and his announcement for his daughter Unne. The girl’s father, who promised a large dowry, required a big gift on the part of the courter, but H0skuld, as Rut’s representative to convey the message, took it upon himself to be responsible for every thing, and thus Rut came into a favorable settlement.
Sexual customs in rural Norway: a nineteenth-century study by Eilert Sundt, Odin W. Anderson
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