Friendship Scenarios in Millennium Women's Narratives

The relevance of the study is the need to understand the content and evaluation of friendly relations in the context of modern processes of intimacy transformation. Friendship, as the least rationed, powerless relationship, is a space to confront or adapt to changing conventions of gender, family, pastiche of biography, and new forms of inequality. The study of individual interpretations of friendship and ways of framing them allows us to categorize the values ​​of modern society through friendship. In this paper, we also proposed a new dramatic approach to research for the topic of friendship, which allows us to combine the macro- and micro-levels of understanding friendship, as well as to identify new ways of conceptualizing the participants in friendships, friendship practices and discourses about it. This study includes the results of a narrative analysis of interviews with thirty millennial women living in St. Petersburg and with different marital status and different attitudes towards the experience of migration. As a result, the possibilities of using a dramatic approach to study friendship are presented and 5 scenarios of female friendship are identified based on the analysis of scenes, repertory positions and discursive practices in the narratives of millennial women.