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Lampard, Richard (2020) Meeting online or offline? Patterns and trends for co-resident couples in early 21st century Britain. Sociological Research Online, 25 (4). pp. 589-608. doi:10.1177/1360780419895524 ISSN 1360-7804.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780419895524
Abstract
Data from the 2010-12 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3) are used to document trends and patterns in where co-resident couples in Britain first met, focusing specifically on the rapid rise of meeting online, which both echoes and differs from a corresponding US increase; in Britain, meeting online largely appears to have substituted for meetings in settings to which access is relatively unrestricted, e.g. pubs and public places. While meeting online appears widespread across British society, variations are identified and linked to ideas from the online dating and place of meeting literatures. Offline partner availability, and how well the processes within offline and online settings suit particular types of people, are interpreted as underpinning many of these variations. Perhaps surprisingly, meeting online does not appear class-related, and involves levels of socio-demographic homogamy that do not differ systematically from those for compositionally-heterogeneous offline settings.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Online dating, Marriage , Unmarried couples, Man-woman relationships , Interpersonal relations | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociological Research Online | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1360-7804 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 589-608 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1360780419895524 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Lampard, R. (2020). Meeting Online or Offline? Patterns and Trends for Co-Resident Couples in Early 21st-Century Britain. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419895524 Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the Contribution on the SAGE Journals website (http://journals.sagepub.com). | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 January 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 January 2020 |
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