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9780761950363

Social Interaction and Personal Relationships

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761950363

  • ISBN10:

    0761950362

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-06-06
  • Publisher: Sage Publications

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'The team has achieved an admirable overall coherence in representing the range of ideas, methodologies and modes of analysis that will be found in this area of social life.... it is likely to find a place on the reading lists of many future social psychology courses' - Journal of Community and Applied Social PsychologyRelationships play a central part in people's lives, and a number of exciting interdisciplinary perspectives have recently emerged to shed new light on what it means to be in a relationship with another human being. This volume offers an authoritative yet accessible examination of a wide variety of these perspectives, drawing from a broader than usual range of material and including considerable reference to clinical contexts and case-studies.Overall, this book provides an introduction to the cutting edge of research about human relationships and interactions, engaging readers in a debate central not only to academic researchers and clinicans but to their own lives.This is the course text for The Open University course Social Psychology: Personal Lives, Social Worlds (D317).

Table of Contents

Foreword - Jerome Bruner
Introduction - Dorothy Miell and Rudi Dallos
Exploring Interactions and Relationships
Relationships in Detail - Alan Radley
The Study of Social Interaction
Creating Relationships - Rudi Dallos
The Psychodynamics of Relating - Kerry Thomas
Change and Transformations of Relationships - Rudi Dallos
Examining the Wider Context of Social Relationships - Dorothy Miell and Rosaleen Croghan
Conclusions - Dorothy Miell and Rudi Dallos
READINGS
Gender Differences in Close Relationships - Robert Hinde
A Gender Sensitive Perspective on Personal Relationships - Arlene Vetere
The Experimental Study of Relationships - Michael Argyle
A Humanistic Approach to Relationships - Richard Stevens
A Sociological Perspective - Graham Allan

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