Are we really good and socially responsible friends? (Originally published April, 2011).
There is a question that has been on my mind for quite some time. That question has been what distinguishes our friends from our peers, and should we practice social responsibility towards our friends ? At times, there are many people who can not distinguish between their friends and peers, though the definition of friendship varies from how the wo rld describes it, definitions of how we define our peers stay some what the same. I remember once picking up a sociology textbook that first year university students use for intro to the subject and came across a textbook definition of what a peer is. Based on that text book, our peers are defined some what as people we know, we get along with and people we socialize or interact with. Sounds like the definition of a 'friend' , but surely friendship and friends carry a different meaning, otherwise the two words would not be in existence or would be merely used inter changeably. Friendship in order to distinguish itself incorpora...