Placing friendship in context

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Label

Placing friendship in context

Statement of responsibility

edited by Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan

Contributor

• Adams, Rebecca G.
• Allan, Graham, 1948-

Editor

• Adams, Rebecca G.
• Allan, Graham, 1948-

Subject

• Friendship -- Sociological aspects
• Friendship

Language

eng

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, first published in 1999, 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.--

Member of

• Structural analysis in the social sciences, 15

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Structural analysis in the social sciences
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

15