“Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are,” says a well-known proverb. However, friendships are just as ambiguous as love ones, and the romantic ideal of friendship for life can be not only untenable, but destructive.
World psychology is experiencing a real “boom of friendship.” On the topic of establishing, developing and, alas, breaking relationships with friends, scientific discussions are held, doctoral dissertations and popular guides are written. Many consider friendship a condition of social success. As for us, we have long been ready to make friendship the measure of our own value: “Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are,” says a well-known proverb. However, friendships are just as ambiguous as love ones, and the romantic ideal of friendship for life can be not only untenable, but destructive. Meanwhile, relationships are influenced by many factors: moving, career, changes in family and social status, and even weight. And here there is little assertion that if friendship did not stand the test, then it was not real. Sociologist Jen Yager explores how we choose friends and answers the question that gave the book its title.
INFOTROPIC MEDIA 272 p.