All Outputs (6)

Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz (2024)
Book Chapter

In the sociology of love and romance, love often serves as either a source of salvation or damnation for modern individuals, prompting sociologists to scrutinise society’s moral fabric. Late twentieth-century theorists of individualisation like Bauma... Read More about Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz.

Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times (2022)
Book Chapter

This volume describes and analyses a series of emotions prevalent in everyday life and culture, with each chapter exploring the main facets of a particular emotion and considering the ways in which it manifests itself in and informs our culture and l... Read More about Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times.

Understanding personal lives: After individualisation (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter will centrally address the second aim of the collection – to explore innovative theoretical approaches to understanding personal life. It will also seek to disrupt ‘normative’ idealisations - those made by individualisation theorists.... Read More about Understanding personal lives: After individualisation.

Intimacies and relationships (2021)
Book Chapter

This innovative textbook introduces you to the key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and helps you to develop as a sociologist by providing comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of study. Presenting you with the his... Read More about Intimacies and relationships.

The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts (2019)
Book Chapter

Illouz (2012) claims that love has undergone a great transformation in modernity. The choice of romantic partners occurs through individual decisions disembedded from moral communities. Romantic love becomes a source of the self as one’s beloved affi... Read More about The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts.

Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England (2018)
Book Chapter

Our research methods case focuses on how, as researchers, we negotiated the topic of race in recruiting participants and conducting interviews for a study about the cultural reproduction of Whiteness at wedding fairs in the United Kingdom. Here, we d... Read More about Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England.