{"id":5285,"date":"2015-03-05T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:21:11","slug":"d8tr-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/03\/05\/d8tr-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"D8TR Dilemma: Millennials \u201cJust Talking,\u201d \u201cHanging Out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5286\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/oeqpYE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5286\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2015\/03\/14591726690_8c7dbf2a1c_k-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"By Thomas8047 via flickr cc.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/03\/14591726690_8c7dbf2a1c_k-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/03\/14591726690_8c7dbf2a1c_k-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/03\/14591726690_8c7dbf2a1c_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Thomas8047 via flickr cc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Picture a family holiday dinner. Food is on the table, everyone is gathered together, and a high school or college student is text messaging under the table. Upon prodding questions about the recipient&#8212;\u201cAre you dating?\u201d&#8212;the irritated adolescent might glance up just long enough to mumble, \u201cWe\u2019re just talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sociology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/people\/hull_k.html\">Kathy Hull<\/a> shares her thoughts about the changing relationship landscape with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/relationship\/291872141.html\"><em>Star Tribune<\/em><\/a>. A generation or two ago the word \u201cdating\u201d often meant a casual, nonexclusive relationship involving the occasional dinner and movie without commitment. That idea has changed. Hull explains,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGoing on a date now has more significance, when the option of hooking up or just hanging out in a group-friend setting is more prevalent. When people say they\u2019re dating someone, it usually means they\u2019re in a relationship.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hull suggests the shift in terms has come out of an extended transition to adulthood, with more young adults pursuing college and delaying marriage and family until they\u2019ve secured a stable job. After graduation, Hull says, many <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2011\/10\/04\/who-is-the-millennial-generation-pew-research\/\">millennials<\/a> decide to start dating in the traditional sense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not until they leave college that some people go back to the idea of using dates as a way to check out potential partners, rather than a way to get into a committed relationship.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With so many waiting to play the game of love, it appears they may, to some degree, forget <em>how<\/em>&#8212;perhaps one more driver behind the rise of online dating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Picture a family holiday dinner. Food is on the table, everyone is gathered together, and a high school or college student is text messaging under the table. Upon prodding questions about the recipient&#8212;\u201cAre you dating?\u201d&#8212;the irritated adolescent might glance up just long enough to mumble, \u201cWe\u2019re just talking.\u201d Sociology professor Kathy Hull shares her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,39112,387,27447,2908,185,3092,28775,120,12],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-adolescence","tag-culture","tag-dating","tag-hookup-culture","tag-internet-dating","tag-life-course","tag-millennial-generation","tag-romantic-love","tag-sex","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/03\/14591726690_8c7dbf2a1c_k.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}