Rethinking Friendship : : Hidden Solidarities Today / / Ray Pahl, Liz Spencer.

From Aristotle to contemporary soap operas, friendship has always been a subject of fascination. But scholarly investigation of the broad social relevance of friendship has been neglected. Rethinking Friendship describes the varied nature of personal relationships today, and also locates friendship...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Fragmentation of Social Life?
  • CHAPTER TWO. Capturing Personal Communities
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Nature of Friendship
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Patterns of Friend-Making
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Friends and Family: The Case for Suffusion
  • CHAPTER SIX. Personal Communities Today
  • CHAPTER SEVEN.Micro-SocialWorlds in theMaking
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Hidden Solidarities Revealed
  • APPENDIX. How We Carried Out Our Study
  • NOTES
  • INDEX