No.17: Preliminary Research

Sorry about the late post of Blog No.17. I forgot how to access the academic search complete last night and it was too late for me to go to the library, so I decided to do it today. Hopefully, I won’t lose all the point of this blog. As I read the comments on my prospectus, I found out one interesting aspect of friendship, which is having power will destroy real friendship. I will probably go into deeper research about this aspect if I can find any information about it.

First, I will get some general information about friendship. By putting “what is friendship” into the search index, I found an article named The Preparation for Proselytizing: Matteo Ricci's Treatise Jiao-You-Lun (On Friendship.) The reason this article caught my eyes is because Jiao-You-Lun is Chinese, meaning the essay or treatise about friendship. And I found another article called Approaching Others: Aristotle on Friendship's Possibility)

Then, I will focus my research on why friendship is essential to us and what motivates us to find the friends that we now have? The articles I found are Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in early adolescents’ friendship development: Friendship selection, influence, and prospective friendship quality, Capturing the friendship context with a collective property: Friendship group engagement vs. disaffection, and The antecedents of friendships in moderately diverse classrooms: Social preference, social impact, and social behavior. I can also get some information about friendship between different genders, races, and ages from these articles. I think these articles are really helpful.

Also I have found a lot of articles about different aspects of friendship. However, I didn’t seem to find any on the topic of power vs. friendship. Maybe I will come across some information on my way reading these articles. This is just a guideline on my paper; maybe I will change some of the articles I use.

Bibliography:

Bryan, Bradley. "Approaching Others: Aristotle on Friendship's Possibility." Political Theory. 754-779. 2009. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

Furrer, Carrie J. "Capturing the friendship context with a collective property: Friendship group engagement vs. disaffection." Journal of Adolescence 33.6 (2010): 853-867. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

Kawabata, Yoshito, and Nicki R. Crick. "The antecedents of friendships in moderately diverse classrooms: Social preference, social impact, and social behavior." International Journal of Behavioral Development 35.1 (2011): 48-57. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

Todd D. Little, et al. "Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in early adolescents’ friendship development: Friendship selection, influence, and prospective friendship quality." Journal of Adolescence 33.6 (2010): 837-851. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

Yu, Liu. “The Preparation for Proselytizing: Matteo Ricci’s Treatise Jiao-You-Lun (On Friendship).” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 43.3 (2010): 167-183, Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan, 2011.