Rethinking Relationships

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. By analyzing talk and the material circumstances of our everyday lives, the author provides a number of features that help students apply the information to their own Questions to Ask Your By discussing issues with their friends, students are able to see the cultural and social basis of some of their assumptionsDiscussion These questions provide thought-provoking topics for individual reflection or class discussionListen in on Your Own This feature asks students to find examples in their own lives and those of their friends