This is an era of "being single". Some data show that by 2050, the proportion of men and women in China will be seriously unbalanced, among which the number of single men will reach 100 million. What is the reason for the surge in the number of single men? The following are the reasons why I have more and more singles. Welcome to read.
Influence of traditional ideas
In China, the preference of boys over girls is a product of the integration of social and cultural factors. China has been a large agricultural country since ancient times, and men have more advantages in physical labor than women. Coupled with the promotion of the concept of men's superiority over women in Confucian culture, there will be an extremely obvious preference for the breeding of future generations.
At the moment of rapid social progress, many people will still adhere to this concept. Under some circumstances, the birth rate of men and women should be roughly the same, but this will lead to the imbalance of the birth rate of men and women.
In the environment of excessive male population, some men will naturally become single. But fortunately, more and more ordinary families began to revise this feudal thought. In today's society, gender differences are no longer an obstacle to individual progress and development, but have at least been diluted.
The transition of women's social status
In modern society, education can change people's life. Many women have made their social class transition through their own efforts, such as from rural areas to cities. Relevant data show that male singles are mostly concentrated in rural areas with relatively backward development. The urban migration completed by women through their own efforts has also led to the growth of rural singles to a great extent.
From the perspective of social psychology, in the process of mate selection, men tend to choose women with lower income and lower education than themselves, which will enable them to obtain a strong sense of control and security in their family life. From this perspective, the leap of women's social status has not only created the growth of single men with low income and low education, but also directly led to the emergence of a large number of highly educated women.
Imbalance between material desire and individual income
Maslow's Pyramid of needs theory shows that after meeting the basic survival needs, people will turn to improve their spiritual satisfaction, and most people's spiritual satisfaction comes from material. In the current universal marriage system, the role played by women is to break away from their original family and enter the husband's kinship system. In this transformation, the material richness of the husband's family is valued by many women, even by women's original family.
However, the current vanity atmosphere also exaggerates people's actual assets in disguise. Psychology believes that people will be instinctively affected by the surrounding environment, that is, when we are stimulated by external materials, our understanding of ourselves will be blurred, resulting in great phased differences in our desires and self abilities. Therefore, women's high material requirements for their other half in marriage are also the reason for more and more singles. For example, the topic of high price bride price is very hot in recent years, which discourages many men.
To sum up, the increase in the number of singles is not only an individual's mate selection problem, but a social problem. It is a product based on China's basic national conditions and an inevitable stage of development. We should treat it rationally.
More importantly, with the liberalization of the concept of marriage and love, non marriage and late marriage may become a normal in the future society, which will not affect social development and the establishment of the basic social framework.