Whether they involve sexual partners in the bedroom, customers and sales clerks in stores, or work colleagues in committee meetings, interpersonal relations between real people are the essential heart of society. But it is a 'heart' that has, for too long, been overlooked in social and psychological analysis.
This book aims to recover the lost heart by exploring a wide range of examples of interpersonal control:
- Intimate relations of love
- Romance
- Family ties
- Sexuality
- Emotional blackmail
- Violence
The...
Whether they involve sexual partners in the bedroom, customers and sales clerks in stores, or work colleagues in committee meetings, interpersonal rel...
Whether they involve sexual partners in the bedroom, customers and sales clerks in stores, or work colleagues in committee meetings, interpersonal relations between real people are the essential heart of society. But it is a 'heart' that has, for too long, been overlooked in social and psychological analysis.
This book aims to recover the lost heart by exploring a wide range of examples of interpersonal control:
- Intimate relations of love
- Romance
- Family ties
- Sexuality
- Emotional blackmail
- Violence
The...
Whether they involve sexual partners in the bedroom, customers and sales clerks in stores, or work colleagues in committee meetings, interpersonal rel...
This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of relevant literature. He draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches as he sees them and he is not afraid to offer his own judgements on the issues and problems he addresses' - Professor John Eldridge, University of Glasgow
Derek Layder's Understanding Social Theory, provides one of the most comprehensive, incisive and readable treatments of the macro-micro problem now available' -...
This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of...
How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book:
- Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around
basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal
desires that flow from them
- Shows the role of the emotions in personal life
- Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence
of 'individuals' and 'personal experience'
- Demonstrates how we build on everyday...
How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book pro...
How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book:
- Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around
basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal
desires that flow from them
- Shows the role of the emotions in personal life
- Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence
of 'individuals' and 'personal experience'
- Demonstrates how we build on everyday...
How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book pro...
