| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) |
| Contents |
More 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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek letter societies -- Social aspects -- United States.
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College fraternity members -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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College sorority members -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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College students, White -- Social life and customs.
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Friendship -- United States -- Sociological aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies |
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Greek letter societies -- Social aspects. |
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Friendship -- Sociological aspects. |
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United States. |
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Education. |
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Education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781469669663 electronic book |
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1469669668 electronic book |
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9781469669656 electronic book |
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146966965X electronic book |
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9781469672106 paperback |
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1469672103 paperback |
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9781469669649 hardcover |
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1469669641 hardcover |
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