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Summary:
The research article “Friendship concept and community network structure among elementary school and university student” by Hernández- Hernández, et al, studies how friendships differ between elementary students and university students. The six discovered that elementary students focused on making friends in their own class, but they also made friends with friends of their siblings. Once the siblings were removed from the equation, the friendships moved back to focusing on who was in their own class. The six watched then studied university students were more selective when choosing friends, “and therefore…when they have friends in the same classroom, those communities are quite different to the classroom composition.” The six concluded that when looking at the classrooms sizes and number of students, they could understand how friendships would be formed for elementary students, but that it was not the same case for university students. They said, “this discovery implies that friendship is a dynamic concept that produces several changes in the friendship network structure” and the way people make friends through life; all of them agreeing that this could lead to more studies to learn more. Response: “Friendship concept and community network structure among elementary school and university students” made me change my thinking about how I use to make friends as a kid, and how I make friends now. I am a bit “pickier” and “choosier” about my friends, than I use to be, and I never realized that. Hernández- Hernández, et al said, “friendship is a dynamic concept that produces several changes in the friendship network and the way people make groups of friends;” and they are right, the idea of friendship is an ever-changing notion, and something we, as humans, will always be working to fully understand. But as adults, we do work harder to pick friends that we think we will get along with more, that we will grow closer to, that we think will trust more. As those friendships grow, and we do trust each other more, that’s what makes strong friendships, and that’s the difference between the friends I have now and the friends I had as a child. Questions:
MLA Citation: Hernández-Hernández, Ana María, et al. "Friendship Concept and Community Network Structure among Elementary School and University Students." Plos ONE, vol. 11, no. 10, 19 Oct. 2016, pp. 1-17. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164886.
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