Uncertain Condition and Youth's Strategies in Marriage Management

This qualitative study aims to investigate how Iranian youth manage their transition to marriage in facing uncertain circumstances. It suggests that youth use active, passive, and flexible strategies to manage their marriage. It also points out that, in an adaptable and flexible way, they devise their management procedures based on their situation and available resources. This implies that marriage management is becoming more individualized. However, it is still influenced by structural variables such as gender and class. While Giddens views life planning as the dominant modern worldview and introduces life as a meaningful living with an accounting attitude the current study finds that such mastery of accounting planning is not evident in youth marriage management. In comparison to Leccardi, who believes that biographies are created by trial and error and that life takes a vague and unpredictable path with no specific objectives, this study claims that youth still have bright insights into their lives and behave based on planning and strategy.