In a study presented by Rose,[5] males and females between the ages of 20 and 28 were examined on their evaluations of same- and cross-sex friendships.
[6][7][8] LaFreniere, Strayer, and Gauthier (1984)[9] conducted a three-year-long study observing fifteen peer groups between the ages of 1 and 6 years old, 98 boys and 93 girls.
Researchers observed 152 Kenyan children in rural settings and found that this change didn't occur until parental expectations and customary duties increased.
"Just when and how such gender segregation appears, is the joint product of the individual and the culturally constructed niche" (Harkness & Super, 1985).
It is also used for historically largely male occupations such as being a sailor (for example, historian Marcus Rediker uses the term to describe the pirate world).
[21] In terms of specific studies, Karen Gabriel offers a useful mapping of the working of homosociality in the context of India.
[23] Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick identifies a continuum between homosociality and homosexuality, going as far as correlating feminism and lesbian desire.
[26] Girard argued that "the homosexual drift stems logically from the fact that the model/rival is a man", producing at times a "noticeably increased preponderance of the mediator and a gradual obliteration of the [female] object".
[28] In popular culture, the word bromance has recently been used to refer to an especially close homosocial yet non-sexual relationship between two men.