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TY - JOUR
T1 - Young, free and single?
T2 - theorising partner relationships during the first year of university
AU - Finn, Kirsty
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Recent research into young people’s private social worlds has highlighted the significance of family and friend relationships for students’ experiences of the transition to university. Drawing on data generated through a qualitative longitudinal study with 24 young women undergraduate students, this paper provides an original contribution to this growing body of literature by bringing committed partner relationships into view. The following discussion uses the notion of the ‘moral tale’ in order to reveal the ways in which singleness and commitment to a partner were experienced and articulated by young women undergraduate students at this important juncture. This paper raises important questions about how young women are able to take on ‘traditional’ and ‘authentic’ student identities whilst also remaining connected to important sources of love and support at this time of heightened change
AB - Recent research into young people’s private social worlds has highlighted the significance of family and friend relationships for students’ experiences of the transition to university. Drawing on data generated through a qualitative longitudinal study with 24 young women undergraduate students, this paper provides an original contribution to this growing body of literature by bringing committed partner relationships into view. The following discussion uses the notion of the ‘moral tale’ in order to reveal the ways in which singleness and commitment to a partner were experienced and articulated by young women undergraduate students at this important juncture. This paper raises important questions about how young women are able to take on ‘traditional’ and ‘authentic’ student identities whilst also remaining connected to important sources of love and support at this time of heightened change
KW - young people
KW - higher education
KW - personal relationships
KW - love
KW - morality
U2 - 10.1080/01425692.2012.699275
DO - 10.1080/01425692.2012.699275
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 94
EP - 111
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
SN - 0142-5692
IS - 1
ER -