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Other Selves: The Art & Science of Friendship

PWR 2SPA - Winter 2014 - Instructor: Pittock, S.
Last Updated: 8-Jan-2014

A guide to resources for PWR 2SPA: Other Selves: The Art & Science of Friendship . The course explores friendship in cultural, developmental, historical contexts. What makes the practice of friendship so elemental to the human condition?

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Bibliographic Management

Background/Reference Sources About Friendship

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

IBSS Extra [electronic resource]: the international bibliography of the social sciences
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
21st Century sociology: a reference book (Chapter 15: the sociology of friendship)
Girl culture: an encyclopedia
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [electronic source] - entries relating to "friendship".
Friend v. friend : the transformation of friendship and what the law has to do with it
Adolescence and beyond : family processes and development

Searchworks Search: Subject = Friendship in Literature

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  1. Soulmates from the pages of history [electronic resource] : from mythical to contemporary, 75 examples of the power of friendship

    Jack Adler. 2013

  2. Textual friendship : the essay as impossible encounter, from Plato and Montaigne to Levinas and Derrida

    Kuisma Korhonen. 2006

  3. Friendship and literature : spirit and form

    Ronald A. Sharp. 1986

Searchworks Search: Subject = Friendship - History

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  1. Letters to a student revolutionary [electronic resource].
  2. Friendship : a history

    edited by Barbara Caine. 2009

  3. The challenge to friendship in modernity

    editors, Preston King and Heather Devere. 2000

  4. Friendship in the classical world

    David Konstan. 1997

  5. Druzhba : ėtiko-psikhologicheskiĭ ocherk

    I.S. Kon.. 1987

Suggested Databases and Websites

In addition to the suggested databases in the "find articles" list, these databases and websites provide additional perspectives. Use the "search" link to access the database.

Social Science Research Network [electronic resource] : SSRN.
[Rochester, NY] : Social Science Electronic Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
LGBT life with full text [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Information Services
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Family studies database [electronic resource].
Baltimore, Md. : National Information Services Corp.,
Green Library » InfoCenter: desk (non-circulating) » HQ1 .F367
The Philosopher's index.
Cumulative ed. Bowling Green, Ohio, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Z7127 .P4 V.39 NO.4 2005
Ethnographic video online [electronic resource].
[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, c2010-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
AnthropologyPlus [electronic resource].
Dublin, Ohio : OCLC
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)