Exam 1 Flashcards
1
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importance of friendship (Duck, 6)
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- belonging and sense of reliable alliances
- emotional integration + stability
- opportunities for comm about ourselves
- assistance + physical support
- reassurance of our worth and value + opportunity to help others
- personality support
2
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Aristotle’s 3 types of friendship
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- pleasure: identified with youth
- utility: identified with elderly
- complete: must be a good human being, wishes good things, wishes good for your friends sake
3
Q
friendship
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a relationship b/w 2 people that involves the voluntary seeking out of one another + displaying of strong emotional regard for one another
4
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Rawlin’s 6 stages of friendship
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- role-limited interaction
- friendly relationships
- moving towards friendship
- nascent friendship
- stabilized friendship
- waning friendship
5
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utility friendship
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- transient
- lots of asking
- committing to an agreed expectation
- objective-based
- little giving, unless out of obligation
- proximity-based
- less conflict, less emotional attachment
6
Q
pleasure friendship
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- small talk
- talk to each other in the same context
- potential limited deep conversations (wouldn’t share secrets)
- less organization in meeting up
- little/some conflict
7
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good/complete
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- easily spoken to
- relational culture developed
- level of protection
- potential for voluntary frequent comm
- potential self-sacrifice
- open about intentions, more direct
- easily communicate through nonverbals
8
Q
Gamble & Gamble: female-female friendships
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- Tend to be face-to-face
- More intimacy
- Centered around conversation
- Difficulty coping with jealousy + competition
- Expect all friends to do everything for them (broad expectations), all things for all occasions
- More medi-communication (talk more about their relationship)
- Tend to have more friends than men
9
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Gamble & Gamble: male-male friendships
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- Instrumental focus (doing things for people you care about)
- Less verbal disclosure of feelings
- Tend to distract friends from troubles
- Covert intimacy (inside jokes, nicknames, being close) - don’t want to be viewed as being gay, homopobia’s effect
- Nicknames
- Not the same level of stress
- Friends are more compartmentalized
10
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Gamble & Gamble: similarities b/w M-M and F-F friendships
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- Loyalty + trust
- Nicknames
- Surviving distance
- Breadth + depth - sticking closely to cultural norms when initiating, but developing breadth and depth along the way
11
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Fife’s 4 dimensions of friendship
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liking, goodwill, mutual involvement, quality
12
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Fife: defining competition
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achievement of a goal
13
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O’Meara: cross-sex friendships
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- “a relationship ‘involving voluntary or unconstrained interaction in which the participants respond to one another personally, that is, as unique individuals rather than as packages of discrete attributes or mere role occupants’”
- Nonromantic, non-familial, personal relationship b/w a man and a woman
14
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O’Meara: ambiguity in cross-sex friendships
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- Don’t fit into a neat category
- Norms for behavior in cross-sex friendships are unclear
- Aren’t a lot of role models for cross-sex friendships
- Few opportunities to make cross-sex friends
- Don’t have the “script” for interacting with a cross-sex friend
15
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O’Meara: 5 basic challenges of cross-sex friendships
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- Romantic - can’t tell if just platonic or something more
- Sexual - friends with benefits
- Equity/power - balance, friends are supposed to be equal
- Audience - questions from outsiders about status of the relationship
- Opportunity - few opportunities to make cross-sex friends in the first place
