'Doing' Intergenerational Friendship: Challenging the Dominance of Age Homophily in Friendship
| Autor: | Catherine Elliott O'Dare, Virpi Timonen, Catherine Conlon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Community and Home Care
Insignificance Health (social science) Conceptualization media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Friends Homophily 03 medical and health sciences Friendship Dominance (ethology) Action (philosophy) 030502 gerontology Intergenerational Relations Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Geriatrics and Gerontology Element (criminal law) 0305 other medical science Centrality Psychology Gerontology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement. 40(1) |
| ISSN: | 1710-1107 |
| Popis: | This article challenges the dominance of age homophily in the literature on friendship. Using findings from a recent study on intergenerational friendship, we put forward a new conceptualization of a homophily of doing-and-being in friendships between adults who are of different generations. This research took a qualitative approach using constructivist grounded theory methodology. Homophily of doing-and-being has three components: being “friends in action” (pursuing interests and leisure activities, or simply spending time together), being “not only old” (sharing identities beyond age), and sharing attitudes and approaches to friendship and life. Additionally, “differences” were an important element of interest between the intergenerational friends. Our discovery of the centrality of doing-and-being, and the relative insignificance of age homophily, constitute a novel way of looking at friendship, and a new way of conceptualizing how and why (older) adults make and maintain friendships. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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