New Social Ties - Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

Informationen zum Autor DEBORAH CHAMBERS is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where she teaches social and cultural theory and media analysis. She is the author of Representing the Family , joint author with Linda Steiner and Carole Fleming of Women and Journalism and joint author with Richard Johnson, Parvati Raghuram and Estella Tincknell of The Practice of Cultural Studies . Her current research includes changing family values and sexual morality in a global context and media and journalism. Klappentext Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid and transient ties typified by computer mediated communication. Zusammenfassung Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family! neighbourhood and community to fluid and transient ties typified by computer mediated communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Changing Ideas about Social Ties Freedom and Choice in Personal Relationships Hegemonic Masculine Identities and Male Bonds Feminine Identities and Female Bonds The Decline and Rise of 'Community' Network Society Virtual Intimacy and Online Sociality The Politics of Social and Personal Relationships References Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Changing Ideas about Social Ties Freedom and Choice in Personal Relationships Hegemonic Masculine Identities and Male Bonds Feminine Identities and Female Bonds The Decline and Rise of 'Community' Network Society Virtual Intimacy and Online Sociality The Politics of Social and Personal Relationships References Index

Product details

• Authors: D. Chambers, Deborah Chambers
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2006
• EAN: 9780333984079
• ISBN: 978-0-333-98407-9
• No. of pages: 215
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Family, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, Social groups, Sociology: family & relationships, Media and Communication, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender studies, gender groups, families, Social sciences—Philosophy, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Families—Social aspects, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection