Structure of Digital Partner Choice

Andreas Schmitz took his doctoral studies of sociology at Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Richard Münch. Since 2013 Andreas Schmitz has been working as Post-Doc in the department of sociology at the University of Bonn. In the summer term of 2015 he is acting as a substitute lecturer for Prof. Dr. Jörg Blasius.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Online Dating - A Meeting Point for the Modern Individual and Traditional Individualism.- 3. The Market Character of Online Dating.- 4. Classical Theories of Mate Choice and the Relational Deficit in the Study of Relationship Formation.- 5. A Bourdieusian Approach to Mating Processes.- 6. Methodological Implications.- 7. Empirical Analyses.- 8. Online Dating – A Unified and Unifying Symbolic Good Market.