LEADER 00000cam 2201213Ii 4500 001 ocn894026164 003 OCoLC 003 LT 003 LT 008 141029s2015 nyua e b 001 0 eng d 020 1594206279|q(hardcover) 020 9781594206276|q(hardcover) 041 eng 082 04 646.770207|223 092 0 646.7|bengelska 100 1 Ansari, Aziz,|d1983-|eauthor 245 10 Modern romance /|cAziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg 264 1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2015 300 277 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index 505 0 Searching for your soul mate -- The initial ask -- Online dating -- Choice and options -- International investigations of love -- Old issues, new forms: Sexting, cheating, snooping, and breaking up -- Settling down 520 At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated? Some of our problems are unique to our time: "Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?" "Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!" "My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who's Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?" But the transformation of our romantic lives can't be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate. For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for this book he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world's leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we've seen before 520 The acclaimed comedian teams up with a New York University sociologist to explore the nature of modern relationships, evaluating how technology is shaping contemporary relationships and considering the differences between courtships of the past and present 650 0 Man-woman relationships 650 0 Man-woman relationships|vHumor 650 0 Dating (Social customs) 650 0 Dating (Social customs)|vHumor 650 0 Courtship 650 0 Courtship|vHumor 650 0 Dating (Social customs)|xEffect of technological innovations on 650 7 Dejting|2sao 650 7 Mänskliga relationer|2sao 650 7 Courtship.|2fast 650 7 Dating (Social customs)|2fast 650 7 Man-woman relationships.|2fast 655 7 Humor.|2lcgft 655 7 Humor.|2fast 700 1 Klinenberg, Eric,|eauthor 907 00 150826
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