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