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Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships
Contributor(s): Montgomery, Barbara M. (Editor), Baxter, Leslie a. (Editor)
ISBN: 0805821120     ISBN-13: 9780805821123
Publisher: Psychology Press
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 1998
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Annotation: This volume describes various ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective; written for scholars in communication and social sciences.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Self-help | Personal Growth - General
- Psychology | Interpersonal Relations
Dewey: 158
LCCN: 97037789
Lexile Measure: 1310
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.21 lbs) 204 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This book describes many different and useful ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective. It is written for scholars in higher education, both faculty and students, across many fields within the social sciences and the humanities who seek answers to questions about how people relate to one another. The book is valuable for all scholars who pursue new ideas because it models a form of scholarly communication in which:
* multiple voices can be acknowledged as valid;
* the worth of one perspective is not measured by the denigration of another; and
* difference is celebrated as conducive to learning rather than threatening to it.

The contributors emphasize the characteristics of their dialectical view that set them apart from other dialectical authors and describe their methods of studying relationships from a dialectical perspective. Following the Bakhtinian perspective, they honor the values of dialogism by respecting different and sometimes contradictory views, assuming that these views can be valid, and joining in a discussion with the editors and other contributors about their emerging work. They also acknowledge that the chapters in this text are part of an ongoing process to frame and reframe emerging ideas, and allow the dialogue that occurs within this frame the freedom to express creative, unique ideas.