- Tytuł:
- Aging Adults about Online Dating: “I am back on the relationship market!”
- Autorzy:
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Erjavec, Karmen
Žilič Fišer, Suzana - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1790889.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016-09-25
- Wydawca:
- Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
- Tematy:
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online dating
older adult
later life
post-socialism
in-depth interviews - Opis:
- The incidence of increasing aging populations and the popularity of online dating point to the importance of examining aging adults’ involvement in online dating. The study uses semi-structured in-depth interviews with 38 individuals from Slovenia aged 63 to 74. The analysis reveals than the majority of the participants claimed that they had access to a large market of potential partners by use of online dating. They used economic metaphors and related them with extremely positive expressions of recovery: we are alive again because we are back on the relationship market. Their decision to seek a partner through online dating meant that they were once again active in a socially important space, which stimulated a sense of revitalization. Even though the participants lived the majority of their lives under socialism, they have internalized the principles of the market economy and perceive their re-entry into the relationship market as their revival.
- Źródło:
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Polish Sociological Review; 2016, 195, 3; 361-372
1231-1413
2657-4276 - Pojawia się w:
- Polish Sociological Review
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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