316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step further, focusing on research linking participants' feelings and actions within a given personal relationship to the larger social context surrounding it. Author Malcolm R. Parks expands on the idea... Read more
Contents: Series Foreword. Preface. Framing Personal Relationships. Inside Relationships and Networks. Initiating Personal Relationships. Becoming Friends. Becoming Romantic Partners. Comparing Age Groups and Relational Types. Comparing Genders and Ethnicities. Mananging Networks and Relational Boundaries. Following Relationships to Their End and Beyond. Prospects for the Social Contextual Perspective. Appendix A: Measures of Relationship Development and Networks. Appendix B: Technical Notes on the Models.
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Malcolm R. Parks
