{"product_id":"9789819244119","title":"Friendship and Sociality Encounters between Privacy and Publicness","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFriendship and Sociality\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEncounters between Privacy and Publicness\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHarry Blatterer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003eChapters 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFriendship and Sociality\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eHarry Blatterer\u003c\/strong\u003e 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\u003cem\u003e Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty (2007)\u003c\/em\u003e, Everyday Friendships (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and the co-edited \u003cem\u003eModern Privacy\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e02 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819244119\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324083011724,"sku":"9789819244119","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789819244119","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}