Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family? - Softcover

Watters, Ethan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582344418 ISBN 13: 9781582344416

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2004

Synopsis

In his early thirties, Ethan Watters began to realize that none of his friends were following the paths of their parents. Instead of settling down in couples and starting families, they lived and vacationed in groups, worked together at businesses they'd started, and met every week for dinner. As he started to document this phenomenon, he encountered countless other "tribes," in cities all over the U.S. Watters explores why tribe members have embraced this structure and what kind of affection and stability they find there, and contends that the conventional wisdom painting Generation X as isolated, selfish slackers may hide an unexpected, much warmer picture.

About this title

About the Author:

Ethan Watters is a journalist who has written about social trends for publications from Glamour to the New York Times Magazine; he is the coauthor of two books on psychotherapy, Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria and Therapy's Delusions. He lives in San Francisco.

Review:

"An anthropological and yet warmly personal look at the generation that delayedd marriage." -- Seattle Times

"Fascinating and humorous, Urban Tribes is an insightful and important exploratiion of modern city society." -- Book Sense

"Watters is a definer of our culture." -- Philadelphia City Paper

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1582344418
• ISBN 13: 9781582344416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272