The compass of friendship : narratives, identities, and dialogues /: narratives, identities, and dialogues. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William K. Rawlins.
• Other Names: Rawlins, William K, 1952-
• 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;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 302.3/4; Interpersonal communication; Friendship; Interpersonal relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483342726; 1483342727
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.