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How do we fall in love in the 21st century? In Dating Apps, Modern Romance, and Social Inequality, Hannah Regan explores the impact dating apps have had on how we meet potential partners and decide who to date. In particular, Regan considers our tendency to fall in love with people who are very similar to us, and how dating apps both facilitate this preference and challenge us to think outside the box. By sharing the stories of dating app users, the book raises important questions about how social inequality exists in our intimate lives, and how technology reinforces these long-held social beliefs. This book situates current patterns of dating and relationships within the historical context of courtship, to explore how the introduction of new technology has changed romantic partnerships. Despite these new possibilities, the analysis encourages us to question whether dating is, in fact, changing, or whether we are simply enacting the same old social patterns in new ways. Challenging the assumptions which shape dating preferences in turn challenges the social structures of power and inequality which underlie them.
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Introduction: The Sociological Side of Falling In Love
Part I: Structure and Exchange
Chapter 1: Fields, Features, and Filters: How Dating Applications Construct Sexual Fields and Romantic and Erotic Capital
Chapter 2: “You have to synthesize yourself down to usually like a couple of sentences, a couple of pictures”: Forms of Capital and Their Assessment on Dating Apps
Chapter 3: “Set Low Expectations About What You're Trying To Get Out Of It”: Exchange Structures, Costs, Benefits, and Evolutions
Part II: Social Inequality
Chapter 4: Too Smart for Tinder: Well-Educated Women, Gender Attitudes, and Dating Applications
Chapter 5: “You're 6'3” And A Lawyer, Put That Everywhere:” Hegemonic and Hybrid Masculinity On Dating Applications
Chapter 6: “Swipe the Direction of Your Politics:” Experience of Conservative, Rural, and High-School Educated Dating App Users
Conclusion
Appendix: Data and Methods
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About the Author
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| Published | Dec 11 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781978768680 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 6 b/w |
| Series | Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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