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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.
Technology and the Boundaries of Relationships: It's all Geek to Me
Technology and the Boundaries of Relationships: It's all Geek to Me
It is not the consciousness of men which determines their existence but on the contrary it is their social existence which determines their consciousness. (Karl Marx 1932: 4)
Focus points for note taking when reading this chapter:
- How does new technology affect relational life?
- Is new technology essentially about the reorganization of relational life?
- What boundaries are there around your relationships? How does new technology force you to spill over from one boundaried area to another?
- Are your relationships portable and as mobile as your phone?
- What rules govern the ways in which you can use your relationship accessibility in social situations?
- Is the need to communicate really a need to ...
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