Benefits of Friends
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campus hookup culture
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college Greek-letter societies
college sex-ratios
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fraternities and binge drinking on campus
fraternities and campus party culture
fraternities and campus sexual assault
fraternity and sorority hazing
Greek life in the South
Greek life on campus
homosocial relationships and millennials and Gen Z
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LGBTQ fraternity and sorority members
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racism in fraternity and sorority life
same-sex friendships and college
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- ISBN 9781469672106
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 151g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 06 Sep 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 2011, Jana Mathews's career took a surprising turn. What began as an effort for a newly minted college professor to get to know her students turned into an invitation to be initiated into a National Panhellenic Conference sorority and serve as its faculty advisor. For the next seven years, Mathews attended sorority and fraternity chapter meetings, Greek Week competitions, leadership retreats, and mixers and formals. She also counseled young men and women through mental health crises, experiences of sexual violence, and drug and alcohol abuse. Combining her personal observations with ethnographic field analysis and research culled from the fields of sociology, economics, and cognitive psychology, this thought-provoking book examines how white Greek letter organizations help reshape the conceptual boundaries of society's most foundational relationship categories—including friend, romantic partner, and family.
Mathews illuminates how organizations manipulate campus sex ratios to foster hookup culture, broker romantic relationships, transfer intimacy to straight same-sex friends, and create fictive family units that hoard social and economic opportunity for their members. In their idealized form, sororities and fraternities function as familial surrogates that tether their members together in economically and socially productive ways. In their most warped manifestations, however, these fictive familial bonds reinforce insularity, entrench privilege, and—at times—threaten physical safety.
Mathews illuminates how organizations manipulate campus sex ratios to foster hookup culture, broker romantic relationships, transfer intimacy to straight same-sex friends, and create fictive family units that hoard social and economic opportunity for their members. In their idealized form, sororities and fraternities function as familial surrogates that tether their members together in economically and socially productive ways. In their most warped manifestations, however, these fictive familial bonds reinforce insularity, entrench privilege, and—at times—threaten physical safety.
Jana Mathews is professor of English at Rollins College.
