Everyday Friendships [electronic resource] : Intimacy as Freedom in a Complex World /
Blatterer, H.author.
This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Structure of the book; 1 Modernity, Intimacy, and Friendship; The modern experience, public and private; Friendship and commercial society revisited; Intimacy, recognition, and romanticism; Conclusion; 2 Friends, Friendship, and Sociology; Sensitizing concepts: social relationships, dyads, friendship; Differentiating friendship from friendly relations; Semantic conflation and contemporary complexities; Conclusion; 3 Love, Friendship, and Freedom; Love, friendship, and the problem of institution
Love and friendship: selective history of a relationshipFriendship's institutional deficit as relational freedom; Friendship's relational freedom; Relational freedom as resistance: friendship and therapy culture; Conclusion; 4 Friendship, Intimacy, and the Self; Intimacy, modernity, and the need for coherence; Generativity: becoming together; Friendship between the public and the private; Conclusion; 5 Gender and the Love-Friendship Paradox; Gender and heterosexuality; Homosociality, heterosociality, and social judgment; Conclusion; 6 The Love-Friendship Paradox and Cross-sex Friendship
The problem of cross-sex friendshipContemporary challenges to cross-sex friendship; Friends with benefits and erotic friendship; Conclusion; Conclusion: Friendship's Embedded Freedom; Love revisited; Nonheterosexual friendships and heteronormativity; Friendship and sociology; Friendship and 'the decent society'; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup.
Sociology.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Social groups.
Family.
Psychology.
Gender Studies.
Family.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Popular Science in Psychology.