The couple, the love and the money. The construction marital economic dimensions of the love relationship, a work of Caroline Henchoz (L’harmattan, coll. “Sociological issues “, 2009)
“When one loves, one does not count” is the popular saying. The money is more often regarded as being incompatible with the values of the family sphere, it would not have its place in the couple, because married love wants to be free and disembodied. It is against this affirmation, as Caroline Henchoz is in line with this work, which demonstrates a point-by-point, how much money is on the contrary a major dimension of the construction of a ” we the marital. “.
An entire section is devoted to a very developed theoretical context in which the work. The couple, the love and the money. The construction marital economic dimensions of the love relationship is at the crossroads of two theoretical perspectives : gender studies English, which focuses on the flow of financial resources in the sphere of marriage and is attentive to the struggles of preservation of individual interests that have taken place within couples, and the sociology of the French-speaking family, understood as a network of exchange and solidarity. We note with interest the presence in the appendix a presentation of the dimensions of methodological research, with a quick overview of the respondents.
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