Friendship and Sociality

Encounters between Privacy and Publicness
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9244-11-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

This book develops an interpretive sociology of friendship as a private, personal and public relationship. Drawing on social theory, philosophy, history, politics and literary examples, Harry Blatterer examines the meaning of friendship, and why friendship matters for the social sciences. 

Chapters move from the beginnings of friendship in likeability, mutual liking and trust to the ambiguities of friendship endings. Distinguishing between friendship and friendly relations, they also examine the relationship between dyadic friendships and groups of friends, political friendships, despotic and democratic suspicions of friendship’s partiality and the fate of friendship under capitalism and digital sociality. 

contributes to sociological theory, the sociology of intimate life and critical studies of privacy, democracy, capitalism and digitality. It argues that friendship, for all its everyday ordinariness, is a useful lens through which to study the conditions for autonomy and flourishing intimate relationships. Friendship, it turns out, retains as subtle subversiveness as a social accomplishment cultivated for its own sake.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blatterer, Harry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Friendship: A Sociological Introduction.- Chapter 2 Semantics, Freedom and Subversion.- Chapter 3 Beginnings: Presociality, Liking and Trust.- Chapter 4 Endings: Ambiguities, Loss and Grief.- Chapter 5 Numbers and Intimacy: Dyads and Groups.- Chapter 6 Everyday Stalinism: Friendship, Life and Fate.- Chapter 7 Democratic Suspicions.- Chapter 8 Democratic Solidarity and Political Friendships.- Chapter 9 Learning Solidarity.- Chapter 10 Friendship Despite Capitalism.- Chapter 11 Digital Sociality and Amplified Vulnerability with Ilaria Popovic.- Chapter 12 Conclusion and Epilogue: Things for Their Own Sake.

Über Autor(innen)

Harry Blatterer is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University, Australia. His research examines the changing meanings of friendship, intimacy, personal relationships, privacy, gender and the life course. His books include, Everyday Friendships (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and the co-edited  (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).