@Article{
AUTHOR = {Horowitz, Mark Horowitz},
TITLE = {The Dating Dupe―The Limits of Biosocially Unfriendly Sociology},
JOURNAL = {Journal of Controversial Ideas},
VOLUME = {3},
YEAR = {2023},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {0--0},
URL = {https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/2/254},
ISSN = {2694-5991},
ABSTRACT = {Curington, Lundquist, and Lin’s book, The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance, demonstrates the limits of a moralizing sociological approach to courting behavior shorn of biosocial insight. In this essay, I summarize the book’s central findings and claims regarding the roots of systematic, racially exclusionary patterns in online dating. I question the adequacy of their social constructionist, power analytic explanation of such patterns; and I suggest additional interpretations from a multidimensional, biosocial perspective. I argue that reducing dating discrimination to “racism,” based on a totally constructed view of romantic desire, is both scientifically and politically shortsighted in today’s polarized ideological environment.},
DOI = {10.35995/jci03020007}
}