Everyday Friendships - Intimacy As Freedom in a Complex World

Informationen zum Autor Harry Blatterer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. His previous book publications include Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty (2009), and Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms (2010), co-edited with Maria Markus and Pauline Johnson. Klappentext This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup. Zusammenfassung This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Modernity, Intimacy, and Friendship 2. Friends, Friendship, and Sociology 3. Love, Friendship, and Freedom 4. Friendship, Intimacy, and the Self 5. Gender and the Love-Friendship Paradox 6. The Love-Friendship Paradox and Cross-Sex Friendship Conclusion: Friendship's Embedded Freedom

List of contents

Introduction 1. Modernity, Intimacy, and Friendship 2. Friends, Friendship, and Sociology 3. Love, Friendship, and Freedom 4. Friendship, Intimacy, and the Self 5. Gender and the Love-Friendship Paradox 6. The Love-Friendship Paradox and Cross-Sex Friendship Conclusion: Friendship's Embedded Freedom

Product details

• Authors: H Blatterer, H. Blatterer, Harry Blatterer
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349323302
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32330-2
• No. of pages: 231
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life; Palgrave MacMillan Studies in; Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Family, Psychology, personality, Social groups, Popular psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Sociology: family & relationships, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Sociology, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, families, Popular Science in Psychology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Families—Social aspects