Personal Relationships and Personal Networks (Hardcover)

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 that the initiation, development, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships are inextricably connected to each participant's social network-a perspective that allows for a better appreciation of our connection to the world, and a greater understanding our significant power as social actors.
This book offers a new way to consider basic notions about how relationships form, such as how particular people meet, and how relationships are started. Among many findings, the volume demonstrates that individuals in relationships feel closer and generally more connected when they also have a greater amount of contact with the members of each other's personal networks and when they believe that network members support their relationship. Additional topics discussed include how this social context model is applicable to different types of relationships; how participants interact with network members; how social networks are involved in the deterioration of personal relationships; and what drives change in relationships.
Students, researchers, and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines such as communication, psychology, sociology, anthropology, family studies, clinical psychology, public health nursing, education, and social work will find this book useful, as willanyone seeking to better understand their own personal relationships.

General

Imprint:	Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	LEA's Series on Personal Relationships
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	Malcolm R. Parks
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-0327-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	0-8058-0327-0
Barcode:	9780805803273

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