What are friends for? Elective communities of single people

Social Networks

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 318-329

  Bellotti, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community; Friendship; Qualitative study; Single youth; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049126162     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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