Why does love hurt? Sociological explanation = Warum Liebe Weh TUT. Eine Soziologische Erklarung. Illuz E.

Nothing has a more destructive or more creative force than love. Where is this power in love? And how does it transform in various social conditions? How does love change in the conditions of the Internet? The book of the famous sociologist and psychologist Eva Illus received a deafening international success, because it gives the key to understanding the changes that occurred in the relationship between a man and a woman in modern times. The reasons for the power of love injuries should often be sought not in the depths of psychological experiences, but in the specifics of the social rules into which the modern individual drives. Changes in the methods of self -perception, building its own career, the formation of marriage markets, female emancipation - all this is carefully analyzing, skillfully referring to literary classics and the latest sociological trends. The book is intended for sociologists and psychologists, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the psychology of relations between a man and a woman.