SOCI10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Late Modernity, Impression Management, Tinder
25 Jul 2018
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Week 9 readings: liquefied love- hobbs et al. Network of intimacy dramatically enhances the user(cid:519)s social capital. New anxieties about risk, self-image and love. Dating apps= welcome intermediaries in the search for companionship, love, sex and intimacy. On a broad scale, love is not being liquefied, nor is monogamy or commitment to long terms relationships. It has been argued that the twin forces of individualisation and social change have to an extent (cid:518)liquefied(cid:519) the solidarity and security once provided by romantic partnerships and family structures. Lifelong monogamous partnerships are being eroded by the proliferation of extensive (cid:522)networks(cid:523) of romantic possibility. Giddens: throughout the 20th century, social change and an increased emphasis on equality and self-discovery drove a (cid:522)sexual revolution(cid:523). Technological developments in contraception freed sex from its intrinsic relationship to reproduction. Feminism drove a radical transformation of the personal sphere.
