The Compass of Friendship : Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues.

The Compass of Friendship : Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues.

Congratulations to William K. Rawlins, winner of the David R. Maines Narrative Research Award for The Compass of Friendship to be presented at NCA 2009 during the Ethnography Division Business Meeting"The book is a valuable addition to the literature on friendship. Faculty who teach relationshi...

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Main Author: Rawlins, Dr. William K. K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Subjects:
Interpersonal communication.
Friendship.
Interpersonal relations.
Friendship
Interpersonal communication
Interpersonal relations
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Living Friendship; 2. Making Choices as Communicators: Similarity, Difference, Individuation, and Participation; Perceiving Similarities and Differences; Negotiating Contexts, Making Choices, and Creating Meanings; Constructing Similarities and Differences of Self and Others; Achieving and (Mis)Perceiving Identities Through the Dialectic of Individuation and Participation; Categories and Identity Construction; Modes of the Dialectic of Individuation and Participation; 3. Communicating Friendship: A Dialogue of Narratives and a Narrative of Dialogues; Storytelling Between Friends; Practicing Dialogue Between Friends; Narratives, Dialogues, and Friendships; Interweaving Narrative and Dialogue in Discourses of Friendship; Conclusion; 4.
  • Making Meanings With Friends: Two Women?s Storytelling and Dialogue; Beginning the Conversation and the Story of Karen and Chris?s Friendship; Narrating Diverging Life Paths; Sharing Stories of Divorces and Traveling Together; Side Two of the Tape ? Conversing About Pets and Policies; Performing a Dialogue of Narratives About Conjunctive Freedoms; Interweaving Narratives and Dialogue in the Talk of Two Friends; 5. Talking With College Students About Frontiers and Frustrations of Cross-Sex Friendships; Debating Cross-Sex Friendship; Addressing Students? Positions on Cross-Sex Friendship; Conclusion; 6.
  • Pursuing Cross-Race Friendships in Personal, Sociocultural, and Historical Contexts; Constrained Cross-Race Friendship; Blacks and Whites Engaging in Friendships: Asymmetrical Challenges and Edifying Practices; Recognizing Meaningfully Whole Persons and Contingent Identities; Accomplishing Cross-Race Friendship; Making Choices, Learning Lessons, and Serving Social Becoming Through Cross-Race Friendships; 7. Embracing Ethical and Political Potentials of Friendships; Ethical Practices of Friendships; Political Practices of Friendships; Friendships and Social Change; Limitations of Political Friendships; 8. The Compass of Friendship;

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