Human Relationships 4th Edition by Steve Duck 1412929997 9781412929998

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ISBN 10: 1412929997

ISBN 13: 9781412929998

Author: Steve Duck

The Fourth Edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relationships. Fresh insights from family studies, developmental psychology, occupational and organizational psychology also combine to bring new perspectives to this thorough survey of the field. Thoroughly updated, with new chapters on: relating difficulty; “small media” technology and relationships, and practical applications, the Fourth Edition offers a fully up-to-date and authoritative review of the field.

Human Relationships 4th Table of contents:

1 Meaning and Relationships in a Biological and Cultural Context

Contexts for analysing relationships

Biology: the animal background

Culture: the large overlay

Daily practices and everyday experience

Uncertainty and practicality

Quality and appropriateness in relationships

Communication as a context for ‘quality’

Communicative contexts for doing relationships

Silent language: nonverbal communication

Are there social rules about space?

Nonverbal systems of meaning

[Un]Skillful use of nonverbal cues

Speaking up for yourself: using words

It ain’t what you say: The role of language and paralanguage

More about content

Using language to relate to other people

Putting verbal and nonverbal together

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

2 Attachment and Emotion

Effects of childhood on later relationships I: attachment

Effects of childhood on later relationships II: experiences and observations

Life at home and school

Interpreting emotions

Labelling and expressing feelings

Positive emotion: love

Are there different types of love?

Developing love?

The behaviour of lovers

Some problematic emotions: jealousy and shyness

Jealousy

Shyness

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

3 Daily Life: The Everyday Conduct and Management of Relationships

Starting relationships: biological and cultural contexts of attraction

Information and acquaintance: how we reveal things about ourselves

Getting to know you: shared meaning

Uncertainty reduction

Self-disclosure

The nature of relationships: everyday management in a practical physical world

How strategic are we in making acquaintances?

Self-disclosure as a strategic relational activity

Establishing, developing and maintaining relationships

Do partners always agree about their relationship?

Does it matter what ‘outsiders’ think?

Break up and resurrection of relationships

When things go wrong

Putting it right

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

4 Relationships within other Relationships: Social Networks and Families

Organizing an exclusive relationship within other relationships

The social context for organizing relationships

Who makes a relationship work?

Getting the relationship organized for outsiders

Recognizing two people as ‘a couple’

Social norms and expectations

Organizing the couple’s new connections

Adding children to the relationship

Families and networks

Systemic interdependence

Happy families?

Parents and peers as influences on kids

The disorganizing effects of family breakup and reconstitution

Children and divorce or reconfiguration

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

5 Influencing Strangers, Acquaintances and Friends

Relating is persuasive and vice versa

Persuading strangers, acquaintances and friends

Everyday persuasion

Influencing strangers

Strangers on the train

Being noticed

The apathetic context

The dog owner’s dilemma

Dissonance

Problems with these ideas

Logos: Messages and persuasion

Reflections

Social and relational face: Was it something I said?

Everyday talk as persuasive

Persuasion and concerns about the relational context

The relational network as a morally persuasive context

Relationships as hidden persuaders

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

6 Technology and the Boundaries of Relationships: it’s all Geek to me

Crossing relational spaces

The Internet as problematic relating

Some relational downsides of the technology

The Internet as a relational acquisition and development tool

Oh give me a phone where the charges don’t roam … mobile phones and perpetual availability

The mobile self and its mobile relationships

Smudging the time boundary

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

7 The Management of Relationship Difficulty

Four degrees of … separation

Hamlet’s fardels: the daily binds of relating

Whips and scorns: unpredictable events and unwelcome minor stresses/rough patches

Oppressors’ wrongs 1: some more unusual problems with relationships

Oppressors’ wrongs 2: the darker side of relationships

The greyer side of regular relating difficulty

Are there difficult people?

Triangulation

Summary

Self questions

Further reading

Practical matters

8 Some Applications of Relationship Research

Relationships are knowledge

Relationships are knowledge movers and shakers

Applying relational knowledge

Speaking to convictions: relationships in legal settings

Relationships in the workplace/marketplace

Engagement

Relationships and health

Summary

Further reading

References

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