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The Structure of Digital Partner Choice

A Bourdieusian perspective

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Authors:
  1. Andreas Schmitz

    1. Soziologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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  • Entails a systematic theory review and motivates Bourdieusian theory of mate choice

  • Provides systematic sociological theory of mating processes

  • Includes adequate methodical approaches to web-data

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 1-11

  3. Online Dating – A Meeting Point for the Modern Individual and Traditional Individualism

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 13-28

  4. The Market Character of Online Dating

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 29-42

  5. Classical Theories of Mate Choice and the Relational Deficit in the Study of Relationship Formation

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 43-83

  6. A Bourdieusian Approach to Mating Processes

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 85-119

  7. Methodological Implications

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 121-139

  8. Empirical Analyses

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 141-180

  9. Online Dating – A Unified and Unifying Symbolic Good Market

    • Andreas Schmitz
    Pages 181-198

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 199-219
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About this book

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-questionnaire data. For the purpose of these analyses, two major theories are used - an explicit theory of individual mate choice, and the more general relational theory developed by Pierre Bourdieu, which helps to highlight the social structures both underlying and resulting from mating online. Results show that online dating is not a partner marker free from social structure, but that the traditional social conditions found offline are also reproduced in this virtual setting. In contrast to the picture drawn by media discourse and advertising, online dating represents a partner market which fulfills the promise of happiness in a socially differential way.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Soziologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Andreas Schmitz

About the author

Andreas Schmitz took his doctoral studies of sociology at Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Richard Münch. Since 2013 Andreas Schmitz has been working as Post-Doc in the department of sociology at the University of Bonn. In the summer term of 2015 he is acting as a substitute lecturer for Prof. Dr. Jörg Blasius.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Structure of Digital Partner Choice

  • Book Subtitle: A Bourdieusian perspective

  • Authors: Andreas Schmitz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43530-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43529-9Published: 10 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82848-0Published: 07 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43530-5Published: 01 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 219

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociological Theory

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