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Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends : How Campuses Shape College Students' Networks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCabe, Janice M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dartmouth College--Students.
- Dartmouth College.
- Manchester Community College (Manchester, Conn.)--Students.
- Manchester Community College (Manchester, Conn.).
- University of New Hampshire--Students.
- University of New Hampshire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Draws attention to the importance of support networks for students as they make, keep, and lose friends throughout college and beyond.We're all familiar with the sentiment that "college is the best time of your life." Along with a newfound sense of freedom, students have a unique opportunity to forge lifelong friendships at a point in life when.
- Contents:
- Introduction: friendships in college
- Processes of making, keeping, and losing friends. Making friends: initial and secondary friendship markets ; Keeping friends: the friendship funnel and friendship expansion ; Losing friends: breaking up and fading away
- How institutions and identities shape these processes. College characteristics: how networks differ by institution type ; Student identities: how race, class, and gender shape networks
- Conclusion: points of intervention.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84416-1
- OCLC:
- 1537646714
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