Everyday friendships
Everyday Friendship conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. Drawing on writing on friendship, love, and intimacy by such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann and Honneth, the book charts the modern meaning of intimacy and the freedoms it offers, as well as the continued challenges of entrenched gendered assumptions in everyday relations of affection, trust and respect. It sh…
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- Full title :Everyday friendships : / Harry Blatterer.
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Everyday Friendship conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. Drawing on writing on friendship, love, and intimacy by such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann and Honneth, the book charts the modern meaning of intimacy and the freedoms it offers, as well as the continued challenges of entrenched gendered assumptions in everyday relations of affection, trust and respect. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society, and in this case about its gendered makeup. Everyday Friendship seeks to reintegrate into sociology the study of friendship and the analysis of dyads.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781137316400, 1137316403
- oclc:ocn895657127
- LC Classification:HM1161
- Dewey Decimal:302.34
Table of Contents
Introduction -- 1. Modernity, Intimacy, and Friendship -- 2. Friends, Friendship, and Sociology -- 3. Love, Friendship, and Freedom -- 4. Friendship, Intimacy, and the Self -- 5. Gender and the Love-Friendship Paradox -- 6. The Love-Friendship Paradox and Cross-Sex Friendship -- Conclusion: Friendship's Embedded Freedom.
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