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Buddy System - Understanding Male Friendships (Hardcover) Loot Price: R936
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Buddy System - Understanding Male Friendships (Hardcover): Geoffrey Greif

Buddy System - Understanding Male Friendships (Hardcover)

Geoffrey Greif

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Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes them work, why they are vital to the health of individuals and communities, and how to build the kinds of friendships that can lead to longer and happier lives. Another 120 conversations with women help map the differences in what men and women seek from friendships and what, if anything, men can learn from women's relationships. The guiding feature of the book is Greif's typology of male friendships: he dispels the myth that men don't have friends, showing that men have must, trust, just,and rust friends. A must friend is the best friend a man absolutely must call with earthshaking news. A trust friend is liked and trusted but not necessarily held as close as a must friend. Just friends are casual acquaintances, while rust friends have a long history together and can drift in and out of each other's lives, essentially picking up where they last left off. Understanding the role each of these types of friends play across men's lives reveals fascinating developmental patterns, such as how men cope with stress and conflict, how they seek and offer help, how notions of masculinity shape their relationships (platonic and romantic), and how their friends can keep them active and happy. Through the lively words of men themselves, and detailed profiles of men from their twenties to their nineties, readers may be surprised to find what friendships offer men-as well as their families and communities-and are sure to learn what makes their own relationships tick.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2008
First published: August 2008
Authors: Geoffrey Greif (Professor and Associate Dean)
Dimensions: 240 x 167 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532642-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
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LSN: 0-19-532642-3
Barcode: 9780195326420

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