The End of Love : A Sociology of Negative Relations

In The End of Love, Eva Illouz documents the multifarious ways in which relationships end. While sociology has classically focused on the formation of social bonds, this book makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve. "Unloving" and non-choice have in turn a profound impact on society and economics as they explain why people may be having fewer children, increasingly living alone, and having less sex. Illouz presents a profound and original analysis of the effects of capitalism and consumer culture on personal relationships and of what the dissolution of personal relationships means for capitalism.