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A Study Of Some Of The Factors Involved In The Friendship Selections Of Juniors In High School, Delno Tyree Perkins Jan 1957

A Study Of Some Of The Factors Involved In The Friendship Selections Of Juniors In High School, Delno Tyree Perkins

Honors Papers

Before we examine the friendship patterns of Lorain High School Junior Class, it is well to discuss briefly the meaning of the relationship, friendship, in the existing society and to refer to certain studies dealing with selective association and friendship patterns among high school students. It is important to examine the peculiarities in the social process of friendship within the culture and also to note its particular functions and characteristics within the subculture of a high school situation as a background for the present study.

Friendship in the culture of the United States is difficult to define because it is …