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Human Relationships

Human Relationships

by SteveW.Duck (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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`There is a wide ranging reference list, which contributes to making Human Relationships an invaluable book for all students and professionals who want to understand interpersonal relationships from a wide perspective' - Therapeutic Communities

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 studies with greater interdisciplinarity 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 attraction, heterosexual and homosexual love, friendship and our experiences of shyness, jealousy and loneliness to explain how and why relationships are established, sustained and sometimes break down. New coverage includes the examination of daily processes such as gossip, profanity, chatting, routines of behaviour 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 behaviour can expand our understanding of the workings of everyday relationships in daily life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 264
 Edition: Third Edition
 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 20 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 0761957111
ISBN 13: 9780761957119

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`There is a wide ranging reference list, which contributes to making Human Relationships an invaluable book for all students and professionals who want to understand interpersonal relationships from a wide perspective' - Therapeutic Communities
Author Bio
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, 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 co-founded 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 hopes to sit on the Iron Throne and be famous.