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In the chapter “The Waltz Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation, and Friendship in a Quebec High School”, the author investigates the effects of the short-term relationships at a critical period of life-adolescence and its effect. The author particularly observes and investigates the phenomena of friendships in the Western culture, its implications of the issues of intimacy, and the reasons for short term friendships. Before trying to analyze the topic further, the author gives a short retrospective of the understanding of friendship through the eyes of other sociologists and psychologists. As cited by the author, Pane sees the friendship as a “sociological Continue reading...