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European Sociological Review 9:249-266 1993
© 1993 Oxford University Press

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Women's and Men's Friendships in Comparative Perspective

ELKE BRUCKNER and KARIN KNAUP

Mannheim Centre of European Social Research Department I Postfach 103462, Steubenstr, 46, D-68131 Mannheim 1, Garmany.

This paper deals with the question of gender and nation-specific differences in friendship patterns. Analysing quantitative and qualitative aspects of friendship in five nations, it becomes apparent that nation-related variations are greater than gender-specific ones. There seems to be a nation-specific rather than a gender-specific idea of how many people can be friends, who could be a friend, and what friends are for.

Manuscript received: April 1, 1992.


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