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Placing Friendship in Context: 15 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 15) - Hardcover

Edited By Rebecca G. Adams , Graham Allan

 
9780521584562: Placing Friendship in Context: 15 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 15)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521584566 ISBN 13: 9780521584562
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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. Together, they demonstrate that friendship cannot be understood from individualistic or dyadic perspectives alone, but is a relationship significantly influenced by the environment in which it is generated. By analysing the ways in which friendships articulate with the social structures in which they are embedded, Placing Friendship in Context redescribes such personal relationships at both the macro and the micro level.

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Review

"Placing Friendships in Context is a provocative addition to the sociological literature....it provides a fresh look at an essential building block of social life." Stephanie Potter, CJS Online

"Placing Friendships in Context is a provocative addition to the sociological literature....it provides a fresh look at an essential building block of social life." CJS Online

Book Description

Placing Friendship in Context is a unique collection bridging social psychological and social structural research to advance understanding of this important subject. Leading researchers explore the social and historical contexts in which friendships and other similar informal ties develop and how these shape the form and substance the relationships assume.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521584566
ISBN 13 
9780521584562
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
222