Talk of Love
How Culture Matters
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-226-78690-2 | Paper: 978-0-226-78691-9 | Electronic: 978-0-226-23066-5
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226230665.001.0001
Cloth: 978-0-226-78690-2 | Paper: 978-0-226-78691-9 | Electronic: 978-0-226-23066-5
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226230665.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler's Talk of Love is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how that culture of love shapes their expectations and behavior in the process. To this end, Swidler conducted extensive interviews with Middle Americans and wound up offering us something more than an insightful exploration of love: Talk of Love is also a compelling study of how much culture affects even the most personal of our everyday experiences.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ann Swidler is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Organization without Authority and coauthor of Habits of the Heart, The Good Society, and Inequality by Design.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Culture's Confusions: Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Chapter 1: Finding Culture
Chapter 2: Repertoires
Part II: How Culture Works: Love Stories
Chapter 3: Examined and Unexamined Lives
Chapter 4: Cultured Capacities and Strategies of Action
Chapter 5: Settled and Unsettled Lives
Part III: Culture from the Outside In: Love and Marriage
Chapter 6: Love and Marriage
Chapter 7: Ties That Do Not Bind
Chapter 8: Codes, Contexts, and Institutions
Conclusion: How Culture Matters
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index