Rethinking Friendship
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Adolescence
Adoption
Adviser
Aunt
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Babysitting
Bowling Alone
Boyfriend
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Career
Caregiver
Case study
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Christopher Lasch
Cohabitation
Community
Community cohesion
Compadre
Contemporary society
Divorce
Emile Durkheim
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Ethnic group
Extended family
Friendly society
Friendship
Gerontology
Godparent
Grandparent
Helpfulness
Helpmate
His Family
Household
Housewife
Ideal type
Immediate family
Indication (medicine)
Individualism
Interpersonal relationship
Intimate relationship
Kinship
Longitudinal study
Modernity
Nephew and niece
Nuclear family
Old age
Participant
Personal History
Personal network
Personal Relationships
Qualitative research
Quality of life
Ray Pahl
Remarriage
Self-love
Sibling
Sibling relationship
Single parent
Social capital
Social class
Social integration
Social network
Social relation
Social theory
Socialization
Society
Sociology
Sociology of emotions
Spouse
The Other Hand
Traditional society
Uncle
Widow
Product details
- ISBN 9780691127422
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From Aristotle to contemporary soap operas, friendship has always been a subject of fascination. But scholarly investigation of the broad social relevance of friendship has been neglected. Rethinking Friendship describes the varied nature of personal relationships today, and also locates friendship in contemporary debates about individualization and the supposed "collapse of community." Exploring friendships with partners and family as well as "friends," the book reveals ways in which friends and friendlike ties are an important and unacknowledged source of social glue. Using a rigorous analysis of in-depth interviews, the authors develop a set of innovative concepts--friendship repertoires (the range of friendships people have); friendship modes (the way people make and maintain friendships over time); and patterns of suffusion (the extent to which boundaries between friends and family become blurred). These concepts form the basis of a typology of personal communities that vary in the roles played by friends, family, partners, and neighbors.
Combining scholarly depth and rich description, this absorbing and accessible book will appeal to all those interested in informal social relationships, including students of methodology and policymakers. With its challenge to pessimistic commentators, Rethinking Friendship urges us to resist sweeping generalizations and to acknowledge the sheer diversity of social life today.
Liz Spencer is a Research Associate of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex and a partner and cofounder of New Perspectives research consultancy. Ray Pahl is Research Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex and is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. His many books include "Divisions of Labour", which is considered a sociological classic, and "On Friendship".
