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

ISBN 10: 0521585899 / ISBN 13: 9780521585897

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Placing Friendship in Context (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 15)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521585899
• ISBN 13: 9780521585897
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

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