Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships
eBook - ePub

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1. A Guide to Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships
  9. 2. Telling Stories: Dialectics of Relational Transition
  10. 3. Mucking Around Looking for Truth
  11. 4. Writing About Friendship Matters: A Case Study in Dialectical and Dialogical Inquiry
  12. 5. “Going Into and Coming Out of the Closet”: The Dialectics of Stigma Disclosure
  13. 6. Dialectic Empiricism: Science and Relationship Metaphors
  14. 7. Choice Points for Dialecticians: A Dialectical-Transactional Perspective on Close Relationships
  15. 8. Dialogism and Relational Dialectics
  16. Author Index
  17. Subject Index