Placing friendship in context / edited by Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan.
"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 a...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Structural analysis in the social sciences.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Sample text |
| Summary: | "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."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521585899 9780521585897 0511520743 9780511520747 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511520747 |