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Monsour, Mitch.

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Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism./
Author:	Monsour, Mitch.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	164 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01B(E).
Subject:	Social psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10599318
ISBN:	9780355144239

Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism.
Monsour, Mitch.

Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 164 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2017.

I begin by discussing structural alienation in the United States and its relationship to the pursuit of romantic love. I argue that romantic love is idealized due the lack of community inherent in a competitive, individualistic society; the romantic partner becomes a replacement for the community individuals once relied on for material and psychological needs. Despite the allure of romantic love, the norms and values associated with it often undermine the development of intimacy, as does the larger society in which the relationship is situated. I refer to this phenomenon as the romantic contradiction. I then discuss some of the factors that contribute to the romantic contradiction, such as the commodification of relationships in a market-based economy, impression management in dating, and the role of gender in heterosexual relationships.

ISBN: 9780355144239Subjects--Topical Terms:

520219
Social psychology.

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