LEADER 00000cam 2200589Ii 4500 001 ocn953799318 003 OCoLC 005 20160928031712.0 008 160720t20162015nyua e b 001 0 eng d 020 9780143109259|q(paperback) 020 0143109251|q(paperback) 035 (OCoLC)953799318 040 NNP|beng|cNNP|dOCLCO|dFXR 049 CKEA 050 14 HQ801|b.A595 2015 082 04 646.770207|223 082 04 306.7/0207|223 092 646.7700 100 1 Ansari, Aziz,|d1983-|eauthor. 245 10 Modern romance /|cAziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. 264 1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2016. 264 4 |c©2015 300 277 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 "First published in the United States of America by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015" -- Title page verso. 500 "Copyright © 2015 by Modern Romantics Corporation" -- Title page verso. 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. 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 Courtship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00881873 650 7 Dating (Social customs)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00888094 650 7 Man-woman relationships.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007080 655 7 Humor.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423696 655 7 Humor.|2lcgft 700 1 Klinenberg, Eric,|eauthor. 994 92|bCKE
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