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BOOK REVIEWS Blieszner and Rebecca G. Adams. Adult Rosemary Friendship. Newbury CA: 1992. Park, Publications, $29.95 hdbk., $14.95 Sage pbk. The authors of this book have built on their edited volume Adult earlier, (Older Structure and Process, to a Friendships: Sage Publications,1989) propose conceptual model and use it to review and evaluate the of the research literature on adequacy adult limit their focus to about actual and friendships. They findings relationships exclude those that on answers to about purposely rely respondents’ general questions The book also includes a to researchers and to inform friendship. plea practitioners each other of their activities. In the fint a model is Its three elements are chapter, friendship presented. age of life course and of other social and individual (including stage stage development); characteristics addition to such as social structural (in things gender, opportunities and and and the levels constraints, psychological disposition); friendship patterns (at of and networks for the and, both, friendship friendship relationships among structure, and process, phases). In a brief overview of historical of friend- chapter 2, following very conceptions the authors six recent trends that have at the least increased the ship, identify very volume of research: wider use of
Journal of Applied Gerontology – SAGE
Published: Mar 1, 1993
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