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Hi folks! I am giving my dear sister pheret1 a bit of a helping hand here, since she hasn't gotten quite the response she had hoped for over the last week or so. She is doing some research for her sociology term paper, and would like to ask people a few questions concerning the sociology behind friends and family. Some of you have already been so sweet and responded to one or more of the three questions already posed, but if you have a few minutes to answer those you have not already answered, it would be a HUGE help! You can find the three questions on her journal page at pheret1, or if you are too lazy or time-challenged to look them up, you can respond to them here, and I will pass them on to her. In addition to answering the questions, the only info she needs from you is your first name, age, and region of country (marital status and a few background-info sentences are optional but welcome). People she doesn't doesn't know are not only welcome to answer, but encouraged, as to get a large as possible cross section of answers. Thank you soooo much! Each and every person who answers will get a certificate in the mail good for one free smooch from moi.

(for those of you who read my journal, but are not on Livejournal- Ira, that means YOU ;-)- and would like to answer, you are able to post your answers anonymously on her journal, which is an option I have disabled here. If you answer anonymously, please DO leave your vital stats so she can use your answer in her study. THANK YOU!)

1)Sociologists use the term "backstage" to describe how one would act with family, and "frontstage" to describe how one acts at work or in public. Do you have friends that you are able to act "backstage" with? When? Why? Do you feel as comfortable letting it all "hang out" with certain friends as with your family?

2)There is an undefined time in most of our lives when we are no longer primarily our parent's children, but do not yet have a spouse and children of our own. How would you charactarize the importance of your primary community during this time? Is your primary community still your family, or is it with your peers? Who do you go to for acceptance/support? Is it different based on the situation?

3)One of the aspects of family we have been studying relates to the "rights and responsibilities" that family members feel. For instance, if you are stuck at the airport, your family members have the responsibility to pick you up, even if it means getting up at 3:00 a.m. Or, if you are going on a trip and don't have the proper luggage (but you know your mom, dad, brother or sister do), you have the right to request use of their luggage.

Do you feel familial rights and responsibilities to your friends? Some of them? A few of them? Can you give me an example of a time you did or didn't feel this applied?

If you would like to participate, but feel your answers are of a personal nature, you may also email her at martaknickrehm@yahoo.com

You guys rock! Please feel free to solicit answers from friends, too! Feel free to put links to the page so your friends and friends-of-friends can answer as well.

*poof* I'm gone

Comments

[pheret1.livejournal.com]

And I am not even done yet!!! I have three questions and I should have 20. But even answering one will help me tons. If you have something that you want to say on the subject, but I have not asked the right question, you can e-mail me a few words, or even a mini-soapbox dissertation if you would like!!!

martaknickrehm@yahoo.com

Thanks!