Living Alone in America: konsekvenser af social forandring

Public Broadcasting Service“Why more Americans are living alone”

“Why more Americans are living alone” is a news clip published on the Public Broadcasting Service Web page in 2012. The news clip is an interview with Eric Klinenberg. The interview is about a demographic change in America, where they discuss the growing number of Americans who live alone and the consequences of social change. At some points, the growing social change is seen negatively. On the one side, it is because the change is leading to aloneness and isolation.

On the other hand, it is because housing is not quite up to the challenge of giving people what they need. On the following interview, Klinenberg argues also, that living alone has positive consequences for society and individuals.

The man that got interviewed, Eric Klinenberg, is a sociologist, who wrote a book at New York University, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Going Alone.The receiver of the dialogue is the American viewers, who follow the Public Broadcasting Service. It could also be any other interested audiences, who speak English because the news video is available on the Web page of Public Broadcasting Service. The man that has the conversations is Ray Suarez. The text, “Why more Americans are living alone” is a discusses of the numbers of Americans who live alone, both in a positive- and negative way.