Phenomenon Of Friendship

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The link between living near to someone and being friends with them
ABSTRACT
To find a link between living near to someone and being friends with them.Man being a social animal has always wanted company.Our whole lives we keep meeting new people and end up becoming fast friends with some of them.But if we look closely at the present set of friends we have we will realize that most of them consist of those who are always present with us most of the time or live in close proximity to us. Therefore this paper aims to give a detailed study of the association between physical distance and the probability of developing friendship while keeping in account certain other factors related to society and the individual.
Why is this study important ?
It will help in understanding the phenomena of friendship and how the physical …show more content…

The open-ended questions to the participants would be of the nature of, “What have you experienced in context of distance and being friends with someone?” or “What were the factors that caused the resulted experience?”The structural and descriptive information of the experiences would ultimately provide an understanding of the common experiences of the participants.
Content analysis would be the basic approach of the study.Content analysis is a method for summarizing any form of content by counting various aspects of the content. This enables a more objective evaluation than comparing content based on the impressions of a listener.
The data collected will be then developed into clusters of meaning from the significant statements and then translated into themes.Other than that Diction will be used to identify the themes and the general tone of the narratives.The Diction software allows us to score various attributions of content analysis such as Insistence,Embellishment,Variety and Complexity.
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