In “The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation, and Friendship in a Quebec High School”, Vered Amit-Talai the author examines the consequences of impermanence of youth peer relations from high school and its affect on adolescent development. Adolescent is the period of life that involves extensive change, and guidance may be required to help form right traits. Through her investigation, she got insightful results about concepts that include lives of youth’s availability, confiscation between dissemination and compression by authorities in an educational environment and decreed disjunction that is followed by intimacy. In this case, she also noted that most the Sociologists and anthropologists, based on their study, have deferred friendship
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Most adolescents see these factors as a contributor to the type of friends one is likely to make and determine the type of people to interact with. Those who come from higher social class are most likely to interact with people of their class as they are likely to have similar tastes and preferences while those with lower level associate with the lower class. They were seen as a natural categorization and social habit as kids tend to grow up with those having similar social background. Western modern culture has impacted the interaction or adolescent relationships. She reflects and learns from previous researchers such as Duck and Gilmour, Jerome, and Allan in that she decides to focus on how societal norms affect youth, as youth is the other standard age groups for the “purest” friendship besides the elderly group (Fischer 1982). Amit-Talai decides to conduct her research at a the Royal Haven School in Montreal with approximately forty students in her perspective grade, coming from a variety of cultural and financial background. Western societal beliefs emphasizes that youth has much leisure time and few responsibilities, leading them to focus more on entertainment. They also have so much time to be with friends, for example at home, school, and various social places. However, Amit-Talai uses statistics of Quebecois youth labor force participation rates to show their level of involvement and interaction in different activities (Andrews, 2009). Western world Friendship has also been viewed as an antisocial relationship. This means that it is isolated and separated from other social roles and relationship due to the attention and demand that people think it
Most adolescents see these factors as a contributor to the type of friends one is likely to make and determine the type of people to interact with. Those who come from higher social class are most likely to interact with people of their class as they are likely to have similar tastes and preferences while those with lower level associate with the lower class. They were seen as a natural categorization and social habit as kids tend to grow up with those having similar social background. Western modern culture has impacted the interaction or adolescent relationships. She reflects and learns from previous researchers such as Duck and Gilmour, Jerome, and Allan in that she decides to focus on how societal norms affect youth, as youth is the other standard age groups for the “purest” friendship besides the elderly group (Fischer 1982). Amit-Talai decides to conduct her research at a the Royal Haven School in Montreal with approximately forty students in her perspective grade, coming from a variety of cultural and financial background. Western societal beliefs emphasizes that youth has much leisure time and few responsibilities, leading them to focus more on entertainment. They also have so much time to be with friends, for example at home, school, and various social places. However, Amit-Talai uses statistics of Quebecois youth labor force participation rates to show their level of involvement and interaction in different activities (Andrews, 2009). Western world Friendship has also been viewed as an antisocial relationship. This means that it is isolated and separated from other social roles and relationship due to the attention and demand that people think it