Changing Relations: Achieving Intimacy in a Time of Social Transition

In a fast-changing world, what impact does social change have on our everyday relationships? How do modernisation processes influence our broader values, and how might these then affect our desires to marry, have a family and develop our social networks? And how do sudden events in a society – invasions, civil conflict, terrorist attacks, collapse of a political system – influence our relationship decisions and processes? In this book Goodwin critically reviews the literature on modernisati...