The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life
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- Roger Friedland, John Mohr, Henk Roose (UGent) and Paolo Gardinali
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- Building on a long tradition of measuring cultural logics from a relational perspective, we analyze a recent survey of American university students to assess whether institutional logics operate in the lived experience of individuals. An institutional logic is an analytic troika of object, practice, and subject linked together through dually ordered systems of articulations. Using the formal method of correspondence analysis (MCA) we identify two latent dimensions that order physical, verbal, emotional, categorical, and moral practices of and investments in love. We take these dimensions as evidence of an institutional logic. The dominant first dimension is organized through talk of love, non-genital physical intimacies, and affective investment. It has no sexual specificity. The subsidiary second dimension is organized through moral investment and it has a genital sexual specificity. There is little difference between women and men, either in the way these dimensions are organized or in the location of men and women within these dimensionalized spaces. We find that romantic love has a situated material effect in terms of increasing the probabilities of orgasm.
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- ROMANTIC LOVE, CULTURE, ATTACHMENT, SOCIAL NETWORKS, SEXUAL STRATIFICATION, FIELD, DUALITY, INTERCOURSE, SOCIOLOGY, SETTINGS, Institutional logic, Romantic love, MCA, Institutional substance, Institutional practice, Institution and emotion
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4414931
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- Friedland, Roger, et al. “The Institutional Logics of Love: Measuring Intimate Life.” THEORY AND SOCIETY, vol. 43, no. 3–4, 2014, pp. 333–70, doi:10.1007/s11186-014-9223-6.
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- Friedland, R., Mohr, J., Roose, H., & Gardinali, P. (2014). The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life. THEORY AND SOCIETY, 43(3–4), 333–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-014-9223-6
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- Friedland, Roger, John Mohr, Henk Roose, and Paolo Gardinali. 2014. “The Institutional Logics of Love: Measuring Intimate Life.” THEORY AND SOCIETY 43 (3–4): 333–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-014-9223-6.
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- Friedland, Roger, John Mohr, Henk Roose, and Paolo Gardinali. 2014. “The Institutional Logics of Love: Measuring Intimate Life.” THEORY AND SOCIETY 43 (3–4): 333–370. doi:10.1007/s11186-014-9223-6.
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- 1.Friedland R, Mohr J, Roose H, Gardinali P. The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life. THEORY AND SOCIETY. 2014;43(3–4):333–70.
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- [1]R. Friedland, J. Mohr, H. Roose, and P. Gardinali, “The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life,” THEORY AND SOCIETY, vol. 43, no. 3–4, pp. 333–370, 2014.
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abstract = {{Building on a long tradition of measuring cultural logics from a relational perspective, we analyze a recent survey of American university students to assess whether institutional logics operate in the lived experience of individuals. An institutional logic is an analytic troika of object, practice, and subject linked together through dually ordered systems of articulations. Using the formal method of correspondence analysis (MCA) we identify two latent dimensions that order physical, verbal, emotional, categorical, and moral practices of and investments in love. We take these dimensions as evidence of an institutional logic. The dominant first dimension is organized through talk of love, non-genital physical intimacies, and affective investment. It has no sexual specificity. The subsidiary second dimension is organized through moral investment and it has a genital sexual specificity. There is little difference between women and men, either in the way these dimensions are organized or in the location of men and women within these dimensionalized spaces. We find that romantic love has a situated material effect in terms of increasing the probabilities of orgasm.}},
author = {{Friedland, Roger and Mohr, John and Roose, Henk and Gardinali, Paolo}},
issn = {{0304-2421}},
journal = {{THEORY AND SOCIETY}},
keywords = {{ROMANTIC LOVE,CULTURE,ATTACHMENT,SOCIAL NETWORKS,SEXUAL STRATIFICATION,FIELD,DUALITY,INTERCOURSE,SOCIOLOGY,SETTINGS,Institutional logic,Romantic love,MCA,Institutional substance,Institutional practice,Institution and emotion}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3-4}},
pages = {{333--370}},
title = {{The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-014-9223-6}},
volume = {{43}},
year = {{2014}},
}
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