Exam 10: Friendships in Our Lives

Identify and discuss differences in the ways women and men, in general, communicate support to their friends. Relate the differences to what you have learned about feminine and masculine gender speech communities.

The likelihood of sustaining a long-distance friendship also depends on other factors, such as socioeconomic class and sex.

People socialized in masculine speech communities tend to achieve closeness in interpersonal relationships primarily through:

Discuss all the challenges of friendships discussed in your book.

Friendships generally begin with:

How do friendships vary over time?

Sex and gender also affect the endurance of long-distance friendships.

Women tend are more willing to tolerate less-than-ideal circumstances for being with friends.

During this state, interactions are often awkward and laced with uncertainty because people haven't worked out patterns for relating to others.

"Friends of the heart" are friends

Women are more willing to tolerate less than ideal circumstances for being with friends.

Identify the following: -Trust

We might make a small self disclosure to signal that we'd like to personalize the relationship or meet outside of contexts that naturally occur.

Friends on the job help workers cope with pressures.

The clearest indication that a friendship is in the waning stage is:

Identify the following: -Friends of the road

During this stage, friends tend to rely on general scripts and stereotypes, because they don't have enough personal knowledge of each other to engage in dual perspective.

Identify the following: -Waning friendship

Explain workplace friendships.

Geographic distance is the reason the majority of high school friendships dissolve when students begin college.