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010 _a 2022015052
020 _a9781469669649
_q(cloth ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _a9781469672106
_q(paperback)
020 _z9781469669656
_q(ebook)
040 _aNcU/DLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dMiTN
042 _apcc
043 _an-us---
050 0 0 _aLJ34
_b.M37 2022
082 0 0 _a371.8/5
_223/eng/20220608
100 1 _aMathews, Jana Eileen,
_d1976-
245 1 4 _aThe benefits of friends :
_binside the complicated world of today's sororities and fraternities /
_cJana Mathews.
264 1 _aChapel Hill :
_bThe University of North Carolina Press,
_c2022.
300 _axii, 330 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aMore than friends -- Fraternity party population control --Group sex -- Hooking up hammered and high -- Going after girls -- The sorority superchapter and the end of the best friend -- Playing war and the case for fraternity hazing -- Friends who fit -- Friends in high places: the fraternity power pipeline and opportunity hoarding -- Preference.
520 _a"Combining firsthand observation with thoughtful analysis and research culled from sociology, cognitive psychology, biology, economics, and history, this thought-provoking book provides a clear-eyed look at contemporary Greek life on US college and university campuses. As higher education's most enduring and pervasive single-sex organizations, historically white fraternities and sororities emerge as powerful social influencers that privilege the same-sex platonic friend over other forms of relationship, at their best offering dynamic new relational possibilities along with social and economic security. At their worst, however, they exacerbate campus hookup culture, create fictive family bonds that hoard social and economic opportunity, and distort some of society's most foundational relationship categories, including friend, romantic partner, and family"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aCollege fraternity members
_zUnited States
_xSocial life and customs.
650 0 _aCollege sorority members
_zUnited States
_xSocial life and customs.
650 0 _aCollege students, White
_xSocial life and customs.
650 0 _aFriendship
_zUnited States
_xSociological aspects.
650 0 _aGreek letter societies
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
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_d524316