By Rebecca G. Adams, Graham Allan
ISBN-10: 0511520743
ISBN-13: 9780511520747
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Own relationships have lengthy been of principal curiosity to social scientists, however the topic of friendship has been fairly ignored. furthermore, such a lot reviews of friendship were social mental. putting Friendship in Context is a distinct assortment bridging social mental and social structural learn to increase knowing of this crucial topic. In it, many of the world's top researchers discover the social and ancient contexts during which friendships and different comparable casual ties strengthen and the way it really is that those contexts form the shape and substance the relationships suppose.
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To the contrary, I will argue, intimate friendship and intimate marriage developed as intertwined cultural ideals and patterns amidst a widening culture of individualism. In recent decades, social historians have unearthed and interpreted the history of sentiment (Cott, 1977; Stone, 1977; Smith-Rosenberg, 1979; Lystra, 1989). I use their work here to assemble an account of the modernisation of friendship, focusing on the exchange of intimacy. My account of modern friendship will centre on the articulation of a burgeoning culture of individualism with changes in social institutions.
Passionate love for a friend posed the danger of establishing a deviant sexual identity and threatening heterosexual courtship. This was more the case for men than women, who continued to be viewed as naturally unsexual (Faderman, 1981; D’Emilio and Freeman, 1988). None the less, regarding girls, teachers and school administrators who once encouraged romantic friendship began to condemn it. The ‘lesbian threat’ 34 Stacey J. Oliker shadowed the ‘crushes’ and passionate friendships of young women and forced them into a deviant underground (Simmons, 1979).
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