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Human Relationships
Contributor(s): Duck, Steve (Author)
ISBN: 1412929989     ISBN-13: 9781412929981
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $181.45  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2007
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Annotation: The Fourth Edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relationships. This thoroughly revised edition combines the most recent research from social, personality, and developmental psychology, communication studies, family studies, and sociology with greater interdisciplinarity coverage and emphasis on processes of everyday life. Fresh insights from family studies, developmental psychology, occupational, and organizational psychology also combine to bring new perspectives to this thorough survey of the field.
Thoroughly updated, with new chapters on Relating Difficulty, "small media" technology and relationships, and practical applications, the new edition is responsive to the student demand for insight into their own lives.
Key Features:
  • Try this out: a section in each chapter indicating how the students can apply concepts personally
  • Look for this in the media where students are guided toward concepts as presented by TV and other media
  • Listen to your own conversations which points students to understand topics in terms of their own everyday interactions
  • Keep a journal where students are directed to keep a journal for class discussion reporting on topic-relevant experiences in their daily life
  • Self questions which confront students with a number of questions that invite them to reflect on their own performance of relationships relative to each chapter topic
  • Practical matters directing students to practical application in the broader social world beyond their academic or personal experiences Chapter summaries, already present inthe Third Edition, offer improved guided study review
  • Brand new chapter openers providing focus points for note taking when reading the chapter
Human Relationships, Fourth Edition retains a distinctive authorial voice while offering a fully up-to-date and authoritative review of the field and is an invaluable book for all students and professionals who want to understand interpersonal relationships from a wide perspective.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Social Psychology
- Psychology | Interpersonal Relations
Dewey: 302
LCCN: 2006929060
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 7.55" W x 9.22" (0.69 lbs) 312 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
The Fourth Edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relationships. This thoroughly revised edition combines the most recent research from social, personality, and developmental psychology, communication studies, family studies, and sociology with greater interdisciplinarity coverage and emphasis on processes of everyday life. Fresh insights from family studies, developmental psychology, occupational, and organizational psychology also combine to bring new perspectives to this thorough survey of the field. Thoroughly updated, with new chapters on Relating Difficulty, small media technology and relationships, and practical applications, the new edition is responsive to the student demand for insight into their own lives.

Contributor Bio(s): Duck, Steve: - Steve Duck taught in the United Kingdom before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. He has been a professor of communication studies, an adjunct professor of psychology, and a former Dean's Administrative Fellow and is now Chair of the Rhetoric Department. He has taught interpersonal communication courses, mostly on relationships but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, communication theory, organizational leadership, and procedures and practices for leaders. More recently, he has taught composition, speaking, and rhetoric, especially for STEM students. By training an interdisciplinary thinker, Steve has focused on the development and decline of relationships, although he has also done research on the dynamics of television production techniques and persuasive messages in health contexts. Steve has written or edited 60 books on relationships and other matters and was the founder and, for the first 15 years, the editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating won the G. R. Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Steve cofounded a series of international conferences on personal relationships. He won the University of Iowa's first Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2001 and the National Communication Association's Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award in 2004 for "dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness." He was the 2010 recipient of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Helen Kechriotis Nelson Teaching Award for a lifetime of excellence in teaching, and in the same year was elected one of the National Communication Association's Distinguished Scholars. He received the NCA's 2019 Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication for career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. He hopes to make it to the Iowa State Fair one day.