This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and
intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships.
Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships
and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to
include other relational types. She summarizes literature across
the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships
and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so
doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision
of relational maintenance.
By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford
includes those that span residences and relational types, such as
noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially
separated adult children and parents. She contends that
face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy
relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining,
rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best
for the involved parties.
With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held
assumptions about communication and close relationships,
"Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships"
will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology,
sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also
appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance
relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique
supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate
students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and
family studies.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Routledge Communication Series |
Release date: |
November 2004 |
First published: |
November 2004 |
Authors: |
Laura Stafford
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
672 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8058-5165-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
Social, group or collective psychology
|
LSN: |
0-8058-5165-8 |
Barcode: |
9780805851656 |
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