Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships

This volume describes various ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective; written for scholars in communication and social sciences.

List of contents

Contents: Preface. L.A. Baxter, B.M. Montgomery, A Guide to Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships. R.L. Conville, Telling Stories: Dialectics of Relational Transition. A.P. Bochner, C. Ellis, L. Tillmann-Healy, Mucking Around Looking for Truth. W.K. Rawlins, Writing About Friendship Matters: A Case Study in Dialectical and Dialogical Inquiry. K. Dindia, "Going Into and Coming Out of the Closet": The Dialectics of Stigma Disclosure. C.A. VanLear, Dialectic Empiricism: Science and Relationship Metaphors. B.B. Brown, C.M. Werner, I. Altman, Choice Points for Dialecticians: A Dialectical-Transactional Perspective on Close Relationships. B.M. Montgomery, L.A. Baxter, Dialogism and Relational Dialectics.

About the author

Montgomery, Barbara M.; Baxter, Leslie A.

Summary

This volume describes various ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective; written for scholars in communication and social sciences.

Product details

• Assisted by: Leslie A Baxter (Editor), Baxter Leslie A. (Editor), Barbara M Montgomery (Editor), Montgomery Barbara M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780805821123
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2112-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Weight: 544 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociology: family & relationships, Dialect, slang & jargon, Sociology: family and relationships, Dialect, slang and jargon