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In this book, Steve Duck, a founder of and prolific crossdisciplinary contributor to the field of relationships research, challenges students to re-examine their assumptions about relationships. Duck shows that in order to understand relationships properly, students must understand the roles that society, language, our taken-for-granted assumptions, and other people who share those assumptions play in the conduct of relationships.
The Bodily Materiality of Relating
The Bodily Materiality of Relating
The sketch in Chapter 3 now presents us with two directions in which to proceed.
First, we should carry out a fuller exploration of the ways in which material physical issues affect your personal experiences and rhetorical visions of the world. It is not enough merely to connect it to personality. There is much more to say about the way in which physical appearance and material experiences in the world in general (e.g., poverty, ill health) affect the way in which a social order understands the nature of relationships.
Second, we need a fuller exposition of the way in which talk influences the intersection of personalities in a way that helps people to share meaning within their social ...
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