Rethinking Relationships

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4129-5876-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Relationships are far more than emotional attachments or bonds. They are not merely happy, emotionally satisfying elements of our lives but they significantly shape our experiences of the world and contribute to our senses of identity, our outlook on life, and even the way in which we think about things. In Rethinking Relationships, noted human relationship scholar and professor, Steve Duck, integrates diverse systems of thought and offers a new and distinct way to think about relationships and relating. The book deals with such questions as "How do people know their world?", "How much of what we know is individual knowledge and how much comes from groups and our personal relationships to other people?" and "How does membership of relationships structure our experience, affect our ranges of knowledge, and organize our daily lives?"

The book introduces a variety of communicative situations by means of which individuals establish, reconstitute, and demonstrate their membership of communities and relationships. However, the book also develops the idea that these relational activities serve epistemic functions, which is to say that they construct, constrain, or facilitate means through which a person knows and experiences the world. Relationships are more than satisfying reliable alliances with others; rather they are communicative loci where the person's knowledge of life is shaped, formed, and interpreted. Thus relationships are both an influence on our ways of thinking and also are places where we sculpt our identity and learn or modify our worth to others.

Features & Benefits:

• Interdisciplinary approach and draws on the conceptual frameworks for many different scholarly traditions, providing the reader with a truly holistic perspective

• Pedagogy that connects the material to students' lives:

• "Try this out" section in each chapter indicates ways in which students can employ the concepts used in the chapter. Students are encouraged and directed to refer the abstract concepts discussed in the chapter to their own daily experience.

• "Look for this in the media": students are guided to discover examples of a concept as presented by TV and other media.

• "Listen to your own conversations": students are encouraged to attend carefully to their own conversations and glean evidence to illustrate items discussed in each chapter.

• "Keep a journal": students are encouraged to keep a journal for class discussion and will be asked to record and report on their observations about experiences in their daily life that would help to illustrate the chapter concepts.

• "Self questions": students are presented at the end of each chapter with a number of questions that invite them to reflect on their own performance of relationships.

• "Practical matters": students are directed to some issues in the chapter that have practical application in the broader social world beyond their academic or personal experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duck, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Old and New Ways of Seeing Relationships
What Do Relationships Do For You?
A Brisk Look at Research and Assumptions
A Different Approach
Do Relationships Make You Who You Are?
References
A Preview of the Book
2. Personal and Social Orders: Relating, Meaning and Talking
Two Important Ideas: Social and Personal Orders of the New World
The Social Order and the Language of Relationships
References
3. What Has Personality Got to Do With Relationships?
What Is Personality Anyway?
The Early Years: Formation of Personality and Relationship Style
How Does Personality Connect to Relationships?
The Answer
References
4. The Bodily Materiality of Relating
Symbolically Connecting the Material World to the Social World
The Material World and Sociability
Experienceing a Material Self
Physical Experiences the Influence Relationships
Conclusion
References
5. Sense and Sensuality: The Relationship Between Sexual Activity and Knowledge of the World
Physical Performance of Emotions and Feelings
Sex and Society
Three Theories of Sexual Epistemics
Epistemics and Various Social Orders
References
6. Wealth, Place, Gifts, and Rituals: The Material Structures and Practices of Relational Experience
The Material Circumstances of Relationships
Material Social Circumstances and Relationships
Material Gifts and Relationships
Conclusion
References
7. The Language of Relationships in a Social Order
Language in a Social Order
The Rhetorical Situation
Symbolic Structures in Talk: Metaphors in a Social Order
Stories About Relationships in the Social Order
Connection to the Next Chapter
References
8. Talk and Speaking Personal Orders
The Surroundings of Conversation
Forms of Talk and Speaking
Getting to Know You: Unscrambling Another Person's World of Meaning
The New Look at Relationships
References
Index
About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Duck, Steve
Steve Duck taught in the United Kingdom before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. He has been a professor of communication studies, an adjunct professor of psychology, and a former Dean’s Administrative Fellow and is now Chair of the Rhetoric Department. He has taught interpersonal communication courses, mostly on relationships but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, communication theory, organizational leadership, and procedures and practices for leaders. More recently, he has taught composition, speaking, and rhetoric, especially for STEM students. By training an interdisciplinary thinker, Steve has focused on the development and decline of relationships, although he has also done research on the dynamics of television production techniques and persuasive messages in health contexts. Steve has written or edited 60 books on relationships and other matters and was the founder and, for the first 15 years, the editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating won the G. R. Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Steve cofounded a series of international conferences on personal relationships. He won the University of Iowa’s first Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2001 and the National Communication Association’s Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award in 2004 for “dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness.” He was the 2010 recipient of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Helen Kechriotis Nelson Teaching Award for a lifetime of excellence in teaching, and in the same year was elected one of the National Communication Association’s Distinguished Scholars. He received the NCA’s 2019 Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication for career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. He hopes to make it to the Iowa State Fair one day.