Changing Relations - Achieving Intimacy in a Time of Social Transition

Informationen zum Autor Robin Goodwin is professor of social psychology at Brunel University, West London. A winner of the New Faculty (Steve Duck) Prize by the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, he is associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, associate editor at the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and past chair of the publications committee for the International Network on Personal Relationships. Klappentext Synthesis of contemporary debates in psychology! sociology and political science on coping with change and its impact on close relationships. Zusammenfassung In a fast-changing world! what impact does social change have on everyday relationships? Reviewing work from across the globe! Goodwin brings together contemporary debates in psychology! sociology and political science on the 'end of intimacy'! the inevitable decline of personal commitment and the impact of social change on personal relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Defining and measuring social change; 2. The myth of modernisation?; 3. More beautiful than a monkey: the achievement of intimacy; 4. Friends and social networks; 5. Sex and the modern city; 6. Marriage and the family; 7. Modeling social change and relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Goodwin, Robin (Brunel University) Goodwin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521842044
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84204-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Advances in Personal Relations
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology