Males and Females, Are We Really That Socially Different? An Exploration of Same-Sex Friendship Dynamics
Shirley Yao, Sabrina Meyn, Viktoria Hovhannisyan The friendship dynamics that males and females form with the same-sex differ in how they bond homosocially: either vertical or horizontal. Homosocial bonds are those that are non-romantic social bonds between those of the same-sex. Historically, these two types of homosocialities are used to regulate how people perform gender. […]