The Structure of Digital Partner Choice : A Bourdieusian perspective

This work approaches the modern phenomenon of online dating, examining the ways people make use of its technical and social potential. In particular, the users' mate preferences, choices, strategies, and interactions are analyzed using the innovative method of click-stream observations and web-...

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Main Author Schmitz, Andreas (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319435305
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-43530-5
Physical DescriptionXIX, 219 p. 12 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Online Dating - A Meeting Point for the Modern Individual and Traditional Individualism
  • 3. The Market Character of Online Dating
  • 4. Classical Theories of Mate Choice and the Relational Deficit in the Study of Relationship Formation
  • 5. A Bourdieusian Approach to Mating Processes
  • 6. Methodological Implications
  • 7. Empirical Analyses
  • 8. Online Dating - A Unified and Unifying Symbolic Good Market.

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