Adult Friendship (SAGE Series on Close Relationships) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is not well written by any means.
Basically the authors read a bunch of research papers on the issue of friendship (listed in the back), and summarized them in short paragraphs.
Strictly speaking, this is written as a book, with several chapters, and is arranged by particular topics. It is not exactly a book of abstracts along the lines of something you might see in a university library.
But the book reads pretty close to an abstract summary book. For example, at one point there is a brief section on how older adults attempt to maintain friendships. Underneath the heading of this section there may be 8 paragraphs, each paragraph very briefly summarizing a research paper on the topic of older adults maintaining friendship. The section as a whole has little continuity, and no overarching analysis tying all of the paragraphs together in any shape or form. And the ENTIRE book is written this way.
I wouldn't even recommend this book to a 'friendship researcher' who I suppose is the intended audience. The summaries are so short and concise as to be almost useless.
The only reason why I'd even give this book 2 stars is because, over the course of reading this book if you are not acquainted with this research, you might be introduced to a few concepts that allow you to broaden the manner in which you might think about friendship which is useful. Overall this book is horrible, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

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A topic relevant to everyone - friendship - is explored in this volume, the first in the SAGE Series on Close Relationships. It presents a thoughtful statement about what we know, and have yet to learn, concerning adults' friendships.The authors discuss state-of-the-art research on the interplay between social structure, individual disposition and dynamic processes of friendship, and findings on both similarities and differences across adult lifecourse stages. They provide a theoretical framework, incorporating both sociological and psychological perspectives. Using this framework, they offer a new and integrative model of friendship to synthesize research, identify gaps in the literature, scrutinize methods used and produce a map for future research.

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