Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives

摘要: The last decades have seen a growing trend towards researching intimacy. A considerable amount of literature has been published based on the reflexive transformation intimacy framework. This paper starts from premise that, recently, more and scholars criticized idea that detraditionalization individualization led to during modernity (late modernity). Critics question ability late concepts offer crosscultural nuanced image contemporary particularities private life intimate relations. purpose this study is show current state knowledge in social sciences thesis thesis, main theoretical criticisms two theses conceptual alternatives them. To achieve these goals, we conducted an interpretive synthesis 16 articles international literature, between 1999-2014, thematic area changes brought by into domain In