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9780333984086

New Social Ties Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780333984086

  • ISBN10:

    0333984080

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-12-12
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book explores new social ties and forms of intimate bonding. Social and personal relationships are being profoundly transformed by changing lifestyles triggered by perceived crises in family, community, work and leisure, and by developments in global media technologies. Are friendships now being authenticated as non-hierarchical and flexible? Deborah Chambers draws on debates in social, feminist and queer theory to assess emerging practice, values and representations about friendship as relations of power, identity and resistance. The book recenters personal relationships within social and cultural theory.

Author Biography

Deborah Chambers is Reader in Sociology of Culture and Communication in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Debates about Personal Relationships in Social Theory * Changing Social Relationships * Death of the Family and Birth of 'Friends as Family'? * Male Bonding and Changing Masculine Identities * Female Bonding and the Changing Status of Women * Globalisation, Network Society and the Regeneration of The Social * Conclusion

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