With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to. Editorial Reviews. Review. An Essay by Going Solo author Eric Klinenberg. As featured on There have been a lot of big. With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom.

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Nicky’s voice is “soft and a bit squeaky”. The book focuses mostly on cities. The book covers a lot of ground thoroughly.
Dec 10, Chunchun rated it liked it. I’m a professional, middle class woman in my late twenties with my own apartment, a circle of close friends who are basically family, and the ability to enjoy my own company. These real-life Golden Girls know only too well that if klinenbedg remarry, they will soon end up as full-time carers all over again.

The Digital Divide in Emergency Management. His research and interviews describe young unmarried professionals not seeking relationships; middle-aged men and women after the end of marriages; and elderly people trying to maintain their dignity by living alone. I came to see it as a social experiment, because what I learned, surprisingly, klinnberg that until about the s, there was no society in the history of our species that supported large numbers of people living alone.
What will I do if I can’t take care of myself? What matters is not whether we live alone, but whether we feel alone. The New York TimesSep 11 — This crucial ssolo is being neglected soo when we need it the most.
And the author does admit, that so long as a person has the finances and health, living alone can work. People who live alone make up 28 percent of all U. The Excesses of Individualism.
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I klineberg just about to go online and put my name down, when I stumbled over this sentence: The interviews cover a range of interviewees from young affluent professionals, to klknenberg middle aged men, educated black women, and seniors — each of whom due to different social and economic situations have unique experiences of living alone.
Jun 16, Marta Veenhof rated it really liked it Shelves: In fact, compared with their married counterparts, they are more likely to eat out and exercise, go to art and music classes, attend public events and lectures, koinenberg volunteer.
Sharing with housemates, even bunking up with your boyfriend, is increasingly what losers do. The Attraction of Solitude. Despite that hi I’m ambivalent about this book, which is a mix bag of great and interesting findings about the community of singletons alongside upsetting statistics and anecdotes of people suffering from living alone.
Recommended overall, particularly if you’re someone living solo whether by choice or not or if you’re a cultural studies fan. Finally, the longevity revolution means that today, people are living longer than ever before. The chapter title is “Aging Alone. Consequently, I found the efic chapters less enlightening than the latter. Looking at Artists Looking at Themselves. The rise of Latchkey Kids and private rooms solk the home is an international experience.
Solo living, as endorsed by the happily married Klinenberg, resembles nothing so much as youth hostelling in the s, complete with the whiff of other peoples’ socks.
Eric Klinenberg on Going Solo
Overall, a good and quick sociology read. Klinenberh Atlantic Apr I wanted a chapter about people with disabilities who live alone. Very bad stylistic decision. If you live in a city, you’ve certainly seen the literal sooo of condo towers and townhome developments, filled mainly with one-room units.
One example is the MS patient who was left alone in a boat by her husband unable to get help. So when I finished, I started thinking about a next project that would continue the theme, and I got funding from gping Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to do a bigger follow up study on living alone and social isolation in American life.
The New Yorker Apr Reclusiveness for the poor and vulnerable. Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million, roughly one out of eve A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom – the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone – that offers surprising insights on the benefits klinemberg this epochal change.

You can be at home, on your couch, talking on the telephone, or instant messaging, or doing email, or many, many things that we do at home to stay connected. Nov 05, Gretchen rated it did not like it Shelves: The book suggests we should no longer continue our journey through life solely supporting the concept of marriage being the end-all and that being single is something to abhor.
He reveals a growing segment of the population, both here and abroad including klinenbery developing countries, who defy stereotypes of sad singles running out of time to find someone.
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Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg
I would say that the four key drivers that I identified were, first, the rise of women. Sometimes it’s temporary as young people establish ggoing own identities as adults and as professionals. The one aspect of living alone that I don’t think about often–but one that this book brought to the forefront of my mind–is what I will do if I am still living alone in my elderly years.
