Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad (May 2015)

Why friendships end up? An analysis from the Goffman sense of vulnerability

  • Mauro Koury

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 17
pp. 20 – 31

Abstract

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This paper aims to discuss the friendship through the vulnerabilities that relations between friends are exposed indaily life. Therefore, in the analysis of vulnerabilities in the relationship between friends aims to understand whysome come to an end. At first, try to establish an approximate relationship between falling in love, love and friendship,to then discuss the social and moral relations produced in a process of friendship and love between friends,and vulnerabilities that discuss, complicate and tighten some relationships and lead others to a close. The analysisis full of comments taken from interviews conducted over several years in all Brazilian state capitals, and who claimthe existence of friendships so intense that felt as eternal, or so that desired look. I try to understand the startlesome interviewees when they having experienced long friendships, suddenly, one day, these relational if it strangeand everything built together lost or seems to lose meaning, and comes to an end.

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