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Living together in a sexually exclusive relationship : an enduring, pervasive ideal?
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Lampard, Richard (2016) Living together in a sexually exclusive relationship : an enduring, pervasive ideal? Families, Relationships and Societies, 5 (1). pp. 23-41. doi:10.1332/204674314X14096686369849 ISSN 2046-7435.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674314X14096686369849
Abstract
Recent demographic trends constitute movement away from forms of relationship behaviour central to hegemonic heterosexuality. The perceived legitimacy of cohabitation, relationship dissolution and same-sex partnerships has also increased. Has a further shift occurred, among people not living with partners, away from conventional coupledom as an ideal? Using data from the second National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL II), this article examines trends and patterns in the incidence of sexually exclusive co-residence as an ideal future lifestyle. While subscription to this ‘traditional’ ideal varies substantially with age and other salient factors, it nevertheless remains prevalent virtually throughout the ‘single’ population. Furthermore, there was no marked change across the 1990s in this ideal’s popular appeal, highlighting its continuing influence as a ‘meaning-constitutive tradition’ (Gross, 2005). Relationship practices and ideals thus appear to have diverged, with the former changing more. However, as lifecourses unfold, people sometimes relinquish the traditional ideal, not infrequently favouring ‘living apart together’ instead.
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): | Interpersonal relations, Attitude change | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Families, Relationships and Societies | ||||
Publisher: | Policy Press | ||||
ISSN: | 2046-7435 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2016 | ||||
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Volume: | 5 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 23-41 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1332/204674314X14096686369849 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 April 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2017 |
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