Ordinary Relationships [electronic resource] : A Sociological Study of Emotions, Reflexivity and Culture /
Brownlie, J.author.
Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged with. Drawing on rich empirical data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out to be explicit about the nature of ordinary relationships.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Death of Ordinary Relationships?; Part I; 1 What We Talk about When We Talk about Emotion Culture: The Role of Culture, Reflexivity and Emotions; 2 About Distances: Researching Emotional Lives; Part II; 3 'It's Good to Talk' and Other Stories; 4 Look Who's Listening; Part III; 5 The Practice of Being There; 6 Seizing the Spinning Top: Reflexivity in Practice; 7 Living in the Second World; 8 On Not Telling Our Sad Stories: Where Have All the Vulnerable People Gone?
9 Conclusion: Having Our Heads Turned by the OrdinaryAppendix - Participant Characteristics (Qualitative Interviews for the Someone To Talk To Study); Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged with. Drawing on rich empirical data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out to be explicit about the nature of ordinary relationships.
Social groups.
Family.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Emotions.
Psychology.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Family.
Emotion.
Popular Science in Psychology.