This study examined the world of Internet dating. It explored the motivations of daters, their styles of courtship, and how they negotiated problems of trust and deception. The authors employed in-depth interviews and participant observation with men and women who met online. Internet daters sought companionship, comfort after a life crisis, control over presentation of themselves and their environments, freedom from commitment and stereotypic roles, adventure, and romantic fantasy. The authors also studied the development of trust between daters, the risks they assume, and lying online. Most participants in the study eventually met, which sometimes resulted in abrupt rejection and loss of face, but other times ended in marriage.

Ideologies having roots in the legal structure of the system of wildlife protection characterize the work culture of the Pennsylvania wilderness of cer. This paper examines these ideologies and the characteristically strong social solidarity of the community of wilderness of cers. Wilderness of cers are both law enforcement agents and conservationists. They mediate between human and animal as well as between what is considered scienti c management and what is considered unenlightened and even lawless behavior. In performing this boundary work, wilderness of cers par ticipate in the social construction of the science of land management, which views animals as renewable resources.The wilderness of cer's job is to insure the continuation of this resource as a part of the natural heritage of Pennsylvania and the United States. The wilderness of cer's concept of "animal" becomes a byproduct of this social construction and of the culture of hunting that supports it. The rural upbringing common to many of cers suits them ideally to their task.This research focuses on the occupational ideology of Pennsylvania wilderness of cers, a collective term for "conservation of cer" and "game warden," the two types of eld workers employed by Pennsylvania to police the forests. It examines their motivations, values, and their social constructions of "animals" Society & Animals 11:4

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