Relationships Between Family, Friends And Individuals By...

Book Intimacy Personal Relationships in Modern Societies wrote by Lynn Jamieson tells us about different types or relationships between family, friends and individuals. Lynn Jamieson is giving us comparrison how the pre-modern, modern and postmodern family and their relation to each other looked like. She also writes about gendered divisions in labour which means how does the women in marriage was treated and what was her duties at home. Lynn Jamieson also writes in her book about friends, kin and intimacy. She tells us about the balance of friends and kin, exclusivity and community in social networks. Lynn Jamieson talks about different types of intimacy, intimacy across genders, generations, classes and races. One of the tasks of her book is to consider whether this type of intimacy is an fact commonly found or found at all in people s personal lives. She talks about different types of intimate relationships parent - child relationships, relationships with friends and kin, sexual relationships and couple relationships.(Jamieson,1988) In the book we read about the wider significance of intimacy in personal life. Personal relationships are a key form of social cohesion(Jamieson,1988) From this quote Jamieson is trying to tell us that relationship with another person are helping us staying together and building our relations with other different people. Family and friendship relationships of childhood are critical in the production of socially competent adults,Show MoreRelatedWhat Is the Relationship Between Social Change and Changes in Space and Time?1699 Words   |  7 PagesWhat is the relationship between social change and changes in space and time? Illustrate with examples drawn from at least two of : changes in cities, changes in media, changes in intimacy. In looking at the relationship between social change and changes in space and time. We first require understanding of what social change is. Sociologists from every school of thought agree that social change is inevitable within our society. Social change is a highly diverse debate that has been analysed by theorist’s