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‘We were just a group of guys who liked to have a good time together’: Former fraternity members looking back on fraternity life
Hall, Jeffrey A.
Hall, Jeffrey A.
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Abstract
The impact on fraternity membership on young men’s friendships is explored through in-depth
interviews of 23 former fraternity members. Men’s friendships are explored in relation to the
dyadic and structural components of fraternity membership. Former members negotiate their
fraternity identity after graduation both socially and individually. Men offer accounts of how
fraternity life impacted their adult friendships, their masculine identity, their consumption of
alcohol, and their adult lives. Two processes, fraternal maintenance and fraternal divorce, are used
to structure the renegotiation of fraternity identity in men’s post-graduate lives.
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2006-11
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Research Projects
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Fraternities, Men’s Friendship, Organizational Identity
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Hall, J. A. (Nov. 2006). ‘We were just a group of guys who liked to have a good time together’:
Former fraternity members looking back on fraternity life. Paper presented at the National
Communication Association Conference in San Antonio, TX.