http://www.metafilter.com/tags/EthanWatters Posts tagged with 'EthanWatters' at MetaFilter. Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:13:53 -0800 Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:13:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/28845/an%2Dextended%2Dfamily%2Dunrelated%2Dby%2Dblood <a href="http://www.urbantribes.net">what do you call your circle of friends?</a> Two years ago, Ethan Watters wrote <a href="http://www.bitch-sessions.com/archives/000094.html">an article</a> in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, covering the current phenomenon amongst adults who are marrying late, waiting for the 'right one', and using an extended social circle to fill the need for intimacy and emotional support that has been traditionally provided by a marriage. He has expanded the topic into <a href="http://www.urbantribes.net/about_the_book/index.html">a book</a> covering groups of friends that have the characteristics of 'an urban tribe' bound by a shared culture of inside jokes, origin myths and communal rituals. Does this apply to your social set? Do you have <a href="http://www.yahoogroups.com">a Yahoogroup</a> or a <a href="http://www.friendster.com">Friendster</a> bulletin board that is used to plan movie nights, pubcrawls or group vacations? Does <a href="http://www.urbantribes.net/ethans_top_five/100303/romantic_partner.html">introducing a new romantic partner</a> to your friends feel more stressful than introducing them to your family? Conversely, do you need <a href="http://www.attrition.org/hosted/sexchart/">a chart</a> to track who has dated whom, who has slept with whom, and who has had more than their fair share of drunken hookups? Or is this all one man's conflated introspection of his extended bachelorship? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28845 Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:13:53 -0800 book EthanWatters friendship intimacy relationships sociology UrbanTribes bl1nk