Adult Friendship

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 an