Family, friends and personal communities: changing models-in-the-mind

Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl

No 2010-01, ISER Working Paper Series from Institute for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: ‘Models-in-the-minds’ about the ‘proper’ and ‘right’ way to be a ‘true’ friend or to ‘do’ family behaviour may not necessarily fit lived experience, especially in cases where relationships become fused and distinctions between ‘family’ and ‘friend’ become blurred. We suggest the idea of a personal community - the micro-social world of significant others for any given individual - as a practical schema for capturing the set of relationships in which people are actually embedded.

Date: 2010-01-31
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