Placing Friendship in Context

Personal relationships have long been of central interest to social scientists, but the subject of friendship has been relatively neglected. Moreover, most studies of friendship have been social psychological. Placing Friendship in Context is a unique collection bridging social psychological and social structural research to advance understanding of this important subject. In it, some of the world's leading researchers explore the social and historical contexts in which friendships and other similar informal ties develop and how it is that these contexts shape the form and substance the relationships assume.

List of contents

1. Contextualising friendship Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan; 2. The modernization of friendship: individualism, intimacy, and gender in the nineteenth century Stacey J. Oliker; 3. The gendered contexts of inclusive intimacy: the Hawthorne women at work and home Stephen R. Marks; 4. Friendship and the private sphere Graham Allan; 5. Rich friendships, affluent friendships: middle-class practices of friendship Kaeren Harrison; 6. Women's friendships in a post-modern world Pat O'Connor; 7. Foci of activity as changing contexts of friendship Scott Feld and William C. Carter; 8. The demise of territorial determinism: online friendships Rebecca G. Adams; 9. Reflections on context Graham Allan and Rebecca G. Adams.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rebecca G. Adams (Editor), Graham Allan (Editor), Mark Granovetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521585897
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58589-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories