Human Relationships

By Steve Duck

Book Overview

The third edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relationships. This thoroughly revised edition combines the most recent research from social and clinical psychology, sociology and communication with greater interdisciplinaity and emphasis on processes of everyday life. Fresh insights from family studies, developmental psychology, occupational and organizational psychology also combine to bring new perspectives to this thorough survey of the field. This new edition revisits the themes of attractions, heterosexual and homosexual love, friendship and our experiences of shyness, jealousy and loneliness to explain how and why relationships are established, sustained, and sometimes breakdown. New coverage includes the examination of daily processes such as gossip, profanity, chatting, routines of behavior and the social and linguistic frameworks for understanding and expressing feelings. Innovatively, these are placed in the social and cultural contexts that help relationships make sense, while the integration of theory with an even greater emphasis on its practical application demonstrates how a sound understanding of social and interpersonal behavior can expand our understanding of the workings of everyday relationships in daily life. Human Relationships will continue to be an invaluable resource for all students and lecturers in psychology, communication, sociology, and family studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761957111
• ISBN13: 9780761957119
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

It makes you think deeper into so-called obvious things.

Relationships are the MOST important part of life. This book talks about the things which we either take for granted or simply ignore. A must read for everybody who wants to live life. I wonder why I was not made to read this book before I started living!