The social factors of rising age of marriage

Marriage and delay of it, is a social affair. Formation and variation of marriage among people is in process of self-interaction with society and it is affected by different level of macro, mid, and micro. Considered theories in this regard are; Robert Merton’s theory of anomie, Durkheim’s theory of Functionalism, modernism theory of Gidenz, modernization theory of William Good and reasonable selection theory of Hector. This research has been done with survey method among young people of 20-40 ages in Tabriz. 280 people are selected by quota sampling method through Cochran formula among 823450 young people. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS. The obtained findings indicate that, there is a meaningful relationship between variables of severity, high expectation of family, expectation level of young people, individuals’ social distrust, enjoying of bachelorhood, education and sex of respondents and rise of marriage age. Finally the obtained findings of regression indicate that, five variables of education, expectation level, social distrust, severity and high expectation of family and enjoying of bachelorhood can determine 51/1 percent of dependent variable (marriage age) variance.