Friendship among young heterosexual and homosexual Chinese Singaporean

Existing literature on friendship studies have focused on heterosexuals’ same and cross-gender friendship patterns mainly examining how social variable such as gender, ethnicity and social class contribute to various friendship experiences for individuals. Previous studies had failed to look into cr...

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Main Author: Pang, Kent Kent
Other Authors: Premchand Dommaraju
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44567
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Existing literature on friendship studies have focused on heterosexuals’ same and cross-gender friendship patterns mainly examining how social variable such as gender, ethnicity and social class contribute to various friendship experiences for individuals. Previous studies had failed to look into cross sexuality patterns that might shed some light on sexuality as an influential factor on individual friendship experience My research serves as an exploratory study on friendship and sexuality for young heterosexual and homosexual Singaporean Chinese, seeking to explain friendship patterns from a sociological perspective.