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Loading... Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment (edition 2003)by Ethan Watters
Work InformationUrban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family? by Ethan Watters
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Written by a self-described "numbskull", exploring the relationships of the people he/we select as friends and who have functionally replaced the relatives and "tribe" we may have been born into. Comes to terms with "friendship", the social tether, and Love. The author spent 20 years living outside of a "family unit" and explored collective living. If you are close to pushing the "Oh My God relationship/marriage/kids/happily ever after" panic button, you've got to read this book. Urban Tribes raises key questions facing singles in their late 20's,30's and 40's. As people are getting married later in life, or not at all, it really introduces some interesting theories on life. no reviews | add a review
Rather than settle down into traditional families, he and his friends have formed an Urban Tribe - an intricate community of young people who live and work together in various combinations, perform regular rituals, and provide the same kind of support as an extended family. Across America and much of the rest of the world, tight-knit groups of friends are filling the increasingly wide gap between college and married life. While social commentators and parents wring their hands about the plight of 'never-marrieds', the real story is that these young adults are spending those years living happily in groups of their own making. In the process, they're changing the landscape of modern cities, as well as their own prospects for the future. As Watters sees it, the 'tribe years' represent less a failure to mate than a new kind of community, and a stage of personal development that makes later partnerships that much more mature and successful. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.2420973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Age groups Early adulthoodLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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