SOCI 2700H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Assortative Mating, Libido, Online Dating Service

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The analysis of couple hood: couple formation, couple dynamics. The ongoing trajectory of interactions between members of established couples including marital and non-marital couples: couple breakdown. The formal divorce or informal dissolution of a couple relationships. The pure relationship is sought only for what the relationship can bring to the partners involved it is precisely in this sense that the relationship is pure. Giddens believes that romantic love has been replaced by confluent love, which focuses on the qualities of a special relationship rather than a special person. He argues that we are now more concerned with what constitutes a good relationship than with what characteristics we might find attractive in another person. Among his critics, mary holmes responds that the concept of the pure relationship. Implies that we now choose who to love and how in the same why that we decide what kind of holiday or pair of shows might be best (2004: 251).

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