Placing Friendship in Context

by Edited by Rebecca G. Adams , Graham Allan

• ISBN13: 9780521585897
• ISBN10: 0521585899
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xiii
Contextualising friendship	1	(17)
Rebecca G. Adams
Graham Allan
The modernisation of friendship: individualism, intimacy, and gender in the nineteenth century	18	(25)
Stacey J. Oliker
The gendered contexts of inclusive intimacy: the Hawthorne women at work at home	43	(28)
Stephen R. Marks
Friendship and the private sphere	71	(21)
Graham Allan
Rich friendships, affluent friends: middle-class practices of friendship	92	(25)
Kaeren Harrison
Women's friendships in a post-modern world	117	(19)
Pat O'Connor
Foci of activity as changing contexts for friendship	136	(17)
Scott Feld
William C. Carter
The demise of territorial determinism: online friendships	153	(30)
Rebecca G. Adams
Reflections on context	183	(12)
Graham Allan
Rebecca G. Adams
Index	195