Someone To Talk To
Publicat de: Oxford University Press Inc
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Winner of the James Coleman Award for Best Book from the Rationality and Society section of the American Sociological Society Winner of the Outstanding Recent Contribution from the Social Psychology section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the Best Publication Award from the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, PROSE Book Award, Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, from the Association of American PublishersWhen people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant. How do they decide on whom to rely? In Someone To Talk To,
Mario Luis Small follows a group of graduate students as they cope with
stress, overwork, self-doubt, failure, relationships, children, health
care, and poverty. He unravels how they decide whom to turn to for
support. And he then confirms his findings based on representative
national data on adult Americans. Small shows that rather than
consistently relying on their "strong ties," Americans often take pains
to avoid close friends and family, as these relationships are both
complex and fraught with expectations. In contrast, they often confide
in "weak ties," as the need for understanding or empathy trumps their
fear of misplaced trust. In fact, people may find themselves confiding
in acquaintances and even strangers unexpectedly, without having
reflected on the consequences. Amid a growing wave of big data and
large-scale network analysis, Small returns to the basic questions of
whom we connect with, how, and why, upending decades of conventional
wisdom on how we should think about and analyze social networks.
General | |
Anul | 2019 |
Dimensiuni | H: 23.5cm | l: 15.6cm |
Editura | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN | 9780190090432 |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 296 |
Format | Softcover |
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