civil union

(noun)

a legal union similar to marriage, established to allow similar rights to same-sex couples, and in some jurisdictions opposite-sex couples, as partners in traditional marriages have.

Related Terms

  • group marriage
  • cohabitation

Examples of civil union in the following topics:

  • The Nature of Marriage

    • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that creates kinship.
    • In some jurisdictions, such as Brazil, New Zealand, Uruguay, France and many U.S. states, civil unions are also open to opposite-sex couples.
    • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between spouses that creates kinship.
    • A civil union, also referred to as a civil partnership, is a legally recognized form of partnership similar to marriage.
    • In some jurisdictions, such as Brazil, New Zealand, Uruguay, France and the U.S. states of Hawaii and Illinois, civil unions are also open to opposite-sex couples.
  • The Movement for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

    • Other states have passed laws allowing for same-sex civil unions.
    • Civil unions provide the legal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples, but not the title of marriage.
  • Racial Stratification

    • Bazile, told the Lovings during their trial for miscegenation that, 'if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. ' He also seemed to take pride in telling the Lovings, "as long as you live you will be known as a felon. " The Lovings eventually contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, who took their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, resulting in Loving v.
  • New Developments in Families

    • Andersson et al. examined precisely this issue in Norway and Sweden, where same-sex marriages or civil unions have been legally recognized since the mid-1990s.
    • Andersson et al. found several ways in which lesbian/gay unions differ from heterosexual unions in these countries:
    • One question often raised about same-sex unions is how it influences any children raised in these households.
  • Types of Social Movements

    • A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
    • Methods of Work: Peaceful movements utilize techniques such as nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
  • Labor Unions

    • The SEIU, or service employees international union, is the fastest growing union in North America.
    • Other forms of unionism include minority unionism, solidarity unionism, and the practices of organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, which do not always follow traditional organizational models.
    • Union membership had been declining in the US since 1954.
    • Most of the recent gains in union membership have been in the service sector while the number of unionized employees in the manufacturing sector has declined.
    • Although most industrialized countries have seen a drop in unionization rates, the drop in union density (the unionized proportion of the working population) has been more significant in the United States than elsewhere.
  • Families and Inequality

    • Likewise, slave marriages in the United States were not binding, so that many contrabands escaping slavery during the American Civil War sought official status for their marriages.
    • The participants in a marriage usually seek social recognition for their relationship, and many societies require official approval of a religious or civil body.
    • In many jurisdictions, the civil marriage ceremony may take place during the religious marriage ceremony, although they are theoretically distinct.
    • Conversely, there are people who have religious ceremonies that are not recognized by civil authorities.
    • For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions but there are exceptions including the Unitarian Universalists and Metropolitan Community Church.
  • Industrial Conflict

    • An example of a labor union is the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), whose constituent unions represent most American workers.
    • In the old model of the AFL,all carpenters belong to the carpenters' union, the plasterers join the plasterers' union, and the painters belong to the painters' union.
    • Each craft union has its own administration, its own policies, its own collective bargaining agreements, and its own union halls.
    • The Nambu University Teachers Union members picket on May Day 2011.
    • Summarize the main points of industrial sociology and Labor Process Theory, including the development of labor unions and types of unionism
  • Educational Reform in the U.S.

    • From the 1950s to the 1970s, many of the proposed and implemented reforms in U.S. education stemmed from the Civil Rights Movement and related trends; examples include ending racial segregation and busing for the purpose of desegregation, affirmative action, and banning of school prayer.
    • Many attribute the purportedly slow pace of reform in the United States to the strength of teachers' unions.
    • In some school districts, labor agreements with teachers' unions may restrict the ability of school systems to implement merit pay and other reforms.
    • In general, union contracts are more restrictive in districts with high concentrations of poor and minority students.
    • Educational reforms during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s focused on civil rights, especially desegregation and affirmative action.
  • Gender Inequality in Politics

    • Angela Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany and Chairwoman of Christian Democratic Union.
    • The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was a single step in a broad and continuous effort by women to gain a greater proportion of social, civil, and moral rights for themselves; but was viewed by many as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle for women's equality.
    • Women's suffrage took a back seat to the Civil War and Reconstruction, but America's entry into World War I re-initiated a vigorous push.
    • Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1948, effectively launching the women's civil rights movement in the United States.
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