refurb Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 http://www.amazon.com/Unhooked-Generation-Truth-About-Single/dp/1401301320 If this definition applies to you then you are just like me. At the age of thirty, I, like many of my male and female friends, found myself single and wondering why finding love seemed so much more difficult today than it was for our parents. I wanted to find out, if I could, why the search for love and commitment had become such an angst-ridden journey. I started by interviewing a hundred single people throughout the country. These men and women revealed intimate details about their love lives and sex lives, sharing experiences they have never revealed to friends, lovers or therapists. Through their compelling stories I discovered that it is not that we individually incapable of relationships (or that our partners are) rather, the problem is much deeper. Today, romance and commitment are a foreign land to us. We are searching for love in an uncommitted world. I saw this book at the library. I flipped through it and it looks like a good analysis of the issues facing single people nowadays. You can read an excerpt here. RF
Sam Spade Posted May 17, 2009 Posted May 17, 2009 meh, sociology 101: family structures have always been tightly related to the prevailing system of production. (e.g. extended families in the agrarian societies, nuclear families in the industrial society; in the former everybody works in the farm, in the latter mom and pop go to work in the same factory for 30 years). Now, in the so called post-industrial society, there are multiple flexible, disagregated, diverse production systems and limitless career trajectories and possibilities. Very hard to match that with the traditional concept of marriage. (and conversely - huge variety in relationship types/structures) But, even so, i say **** it, and will establish my own traditional dynasty that will take over the world one day. (the point being that our generation should quit whining and decide whether it'll be all play and no commitment, or some play buyt mostly commitment).
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