Friendship

The Character of Friendship

by Laurence THOMAS

There is parental love and romantic love and the love of friendship.  This essay discusses the way in which the... more There is parental love and romantic love and the love of friendship.  This essay discusses the way in which the love of friendship is parallel to the love of romance and parental love and the way in which the love friendship differs from these two love. 

Online Friendship

by Lijun Tang

In: Yan, Z. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior.

This entry reviews and discusses several issues regarding online friendship. After introducing two opposite... more This entry reviews and discusses several issues regarding online friendship. After introducing two opposite perspectives: the cues-filtered-out perspective and the social information process theory, it examines empirical studies with particular focuses on online friendships development, comparisons between online friendship and its offline counterpart, and the impacts of online friendship on the offline life.

Development of Online Friendship in Different Social Spaces: A Case Study

by Lijun Tang

In: Information Communication & Society

With the development and widespread use of the Internet, more and more people make friends online. Such friendship can... more With the development and widespread use of the Internet, more and more people make friends online. Such friendship can shift to other settings. For example, many online friends also meet each other face-to-face. Therefore, online friendship can be performed in different social spaces. The relationship between online friendship and the social spaces where it is performed has rarely been discussed. Based on a study of seafarer-partners’ friendships formed on a discussion website, this paper demarcates friendship performed in three different spaces: the website itself, another online setting, and offline space. It suggests that the more spaces the friendship expands into, the more intimate and rewarding it becomes. This paper also explores the implications of each setting for maintaining performing friendship.

‘When Iris Met Eve: An Australasian Friendship’, Lighted Windows: Critical Essays on Robin Hyde, ed. Mary Paul, (Otago University Press, 2008.)

by Brigid Magner

Dios en la ética de Aristóteles - God in Aristotle’s Ethics

by David Torrijos-Castrillejo

Pensamiento: Revista de investigación e Información filosófica, ISSN 0031-4749, Vol. 68, Nº 255, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Razón y existencia en el acesso a la Divinidad) , págs. 5-23.

In the last few years, a new paradigm of the knowledge of the divinity in Aristotle has emerged, affording the... more In the last few years, a new paradigm of the knowledge of the divinity in Aristotle has emerged, affording the possibility of understanding him as efficient cause. In that case, if God is efficient cause and gives rise to teleology, this must have some existential significance for man. We can ask ourselves therefore whether the knowledge of metaphysics can offer some orientation also for ethics. Yet if this were true, the need would arise to deepen the question of how much the gods love men and what would the nature of their relationship be to natural justice. Given that man is born and lives thanks to the divinity, the conclusion is that two consequences follow: a response of religious thanksgiving is needed but also, that since the will of the divinity desires the good for man, the human search for happiness is the same as the fulfillment of the divine law. All this is explained, to a certain extent, in the context of the friendship between man and the divine.

A comparative discussion of computer mediate communication and face-to-face interpersonal communication

by sssaam matthews

2010

This comparative discussion address' how interpersonal communication is transmitted through computer mediated... more This comparative discussion address' how interpersonal communication is transmitted through computer mediated communication (CMC). The treatment will be focused on identifying the consequential effects of CMC on two relationship types: friendship and love.

Gender Rules: Same and Cross-Gender Friendship Norms

by H. Colleen Sinclair

Social Networks, Effects on Developed Relationships

by H. Colleen Sinclair

Pulling the strings: Effects of friend and parent opinions on dating choices

by H. Colleen Sinclair

A love letter to the Other: Xenophily and radical politics

by Marco Cuevas-Hewitt

Forthcoming. Draft available for viewing.

Opening paragraphs:

"What better way to get myself in the mood to write an essay on love, I figured,... more Opening paragraphs:

"What better way to get myself in the mood to write an essay on love, I figured, than to listen to some of my favourite love songs? The smooth and sensual vocals of Cody Chestnutt’s ‘No One Will’ seem to be doing the trick right now. However, my wish here is not to write of romantic love (at least not exclusively), but of love in a political and ethical, though I would hope no less erotic, sense.

I begin by posing the question of love in relation to the under-examined concept of community. Beyond the ‘community of two’ that is the romantic couple or pair of friends are communities of interest, political persuasion, class, gender, culture, nation, and so on. Implicit in each kind of self-identified community are particular values concerning who it is admissible to associate with, to become friends with, to love.

‘Some of them might be nice people’, conceded the xenophobe to her more immigrant-friendly colleague one evening on my television screen, ‘but it’s not as if I’m going to become friends with them. That’s not how the world works’.

It is scarcely questioned that we should so often be drawn to people in whom we find something of ourselves. Communities have become a veritable extension of the self. Love, meanwhile, becomes reduced to the love of Same."

Of Food and Friendship: A Method for Understanding Eating Disorders in India

by Tanja Ahlin

Forthcoming in Medische Antropologie 24 (1), June 2012 (special issue on 'Ethnography and self-exploration').

Studies of eating disorders in general and of anorexia nervosa in particular are abundant in Western countries and... more Studies of eating disorders in general and of anorexia nervosa in particular are abundant in Western countries and perspectives on causes are plentiful. However, in South Asia this condition has not been investigated extensively. During my voluntary work in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand I forged a friendship with a young woman with disordered eating. Her condition seemed much more complex and multi-layered than suggested by the literature I could find on the topic. In this article, I describe the methods I used to examine the various meanings of “being too weak and thin” in rural India through an ethnographic case study. In particular, I give an account of the friendship I developed with my informant, the implications it had on the choice of this research topic, and the ways in which it helped me understand my informant’s condition better. While friendship is by no means an unproblematic method in the social sciences, it proved to be a highly valuable approach in this study.
[friendship as method, self-reflection, ethnographic case study, eating disorders, India, personal narrative]

Categorizing and measuring social ties

by Juuso Karikoski

Nelimarkka, M. and Karikoski, J., 2012. Categorizing and measuring social ties. In: RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology. Sydney, Australia, July 9-13 2012.

Friendship and the Ascent of the Soul in Augustine

by Naoki Kamimura

Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, vol. 4, eds. Wendy Mayer, Pauline Allen, and Lawrence Cross (Sydney: St Paul’s Publications, 2006) 295-310

[Introduction]
The Source of Friendship
The Ascent of the Soul
Suggested Explanations: Friendship in... more [Introduction]
The Source of Friendship
The Ascent of the Soul
Suggested Explanations: Friendship in the Ascent of the Soul
Conclusion

Friendship and Shared Reading Experiences in Augustine

by Naoki Kamimura

Patristica, supplementary volume 3 (2011) 69-83

[Introduction]
1. The invulnerability of friendship and its spiritual prescription
2. Reading experiences in... more [Introduction]
1. The invulnerability of friendship and its spiritual prescription
2. Reading experiences in combination with friendship
3. Concluding Remarks

"Friendly Relations: Situating Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic, 1780–1830"

by Cassandra Good

published in Gender & History April 2012; please send me a note to receive a copy of this article

Men and women who became friends in the early American republic struggled with societal worries about the purity and... more Men and women who became friends in the early American republic struggled with societal worries about the purity and chastity of their friendships. More so than other pairs of friends, heterosocial friends had to attend to how their friendships appeared to those around them. One of the most important ways of doing so was positioning a friendship in relation to spouses. In an era when marriage was the central structure for relations between men and women and fears of seduction and ruin were rampant, friends of the opposite sex needed to integrate their friendships within their marriages. This paper examines how men and women did so through the lens of their correspondence. Navigating a society without clear boundaries or rules for conducting a friendship between a man and a woman, individual pairs of friends improvised to create safe friendships in person and in letters. The careful intertwining of marriages and friendships they created demonstrates the way intimate social relationships were embedded in the social fabric of the early American republic.

La traición en Deleuze

by Gonzalo Montenegro

Published in 'Paralaje' Revista de Filosofía (ISSN 0718-6770), Postgrado en Filosofía PUCV, Valparaíso, Chile, pp. 28-44

Basándonos en la idea de personaje conceptual, el presente artículo se propone desarrollar las consecuencias de la... more Basándonos en la idea de personaje conceptual, el presente artículo se propone desarrollar las consecuencias de la emergencia del personaje del traidor en la obra de Gilles Deleuze. Para ello se desarrollará un análisis centrado en la obra que dicho pensador escribiera junto a Félix Guattari, ¿Qué es la filosofía?, en la que se propone entender a la filosofía como un ejercicio de pensamiento creador de conceptos, actividad que remite a la insistencia de personajes conceptuales en la propia potencia creadora. En línea con ello, se prestará especial importancia al Amigo, en quien es posible descubrir las
condiciones para liberar la conceptualización de la amistad de la fidelidad cristiana y abrirla a las insospechadas consecuencias que pueda revestir pensar al Amigo a partir del traidor.

Ana's Friends. Friendship in Online Pro-Ana Communities

by Swen Seebach

Political friendship in the era of ‘the social’: Theorizing personal relations with Alexis de Tocqueville

by Peter Mallory

Journal of Classical Sociology 12(1): 22-42. 2012

This article examines the contribution Tocqueville’s work can make to recent scholarly debates on political friendship... more This article examines the contribution Tocqueville’s work can make to recent scholarly debates on political friendship in modernity. Tocqueville, unlike most modern classical social theorists, does not treat friendship as a private bond devoid of political significance. For him, political friendship contributes to the success of democracy and is so crucial that its absence leads to despotism. The reason Tocqueville is attuned to the political significance of personal bonds when most modern theorists are not is his interpretation of ‘the social.’ This article investigates Tocqueville’s account of political friendship relative to his analysis of the new social basis of modern democracies. I argue that, in linking friendship to the social, Tocqueville provides an account of political friendship apposite to a modern society of strangers.

TÁRKI - Omnibusz - Bár egyre több a barátunk, minden ötödik felnőttnek nincs barátja

by TARKI Social Research Institute

Honnét hová, merre halad a barátság útja? Az elmúlt 25 évben a felnőtt magyar lakosság körében erősen ingadozott a... more Honnét hová, merre halad a barátság útja? Az elmúlt 25 évben a felnőtt magyar lakosság körében erősen ingadozott a barátok száma, amely azért összességében 1986-hoz képest lassan és ingadozva, de növekszik.

Toward understanding friendship in online social networks

by Dmitry Zinoviev

Co-authored with Vy Duong. Published in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society (5:2 2009)

All major on-line social networks, such as MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Orkut, are built around the concept of... more All major on-line social networks, such as MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Orkut, are built around the concept of friendship. It is not uncommon for a social network participant to have over 100 friends. A natural question arises: are they all real friends of hers, or does she mean something different when she calls them “friends?” Speaking in other words, what is the relationship between off-line (real, traditional) friendship and its on-line (virtual) namesake? In this paper, we use sociological
data to suggest that there is a significant difference between the concepts of virtual and real friendships. We further investigate the structure of on-line friendship and observe that it follows the
Pareto (or double Pareto) distribution and is subject to age stratification but not to gender segregation. We introduce the concept of digital personality that quantifies the willingness of a social network participant to engage in virtual friendships.