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Studying Interpersonal Interaction
This volume presents a comprehensive, critical examination of current research methods used to study human social behavior as it occurs in interpersonal settings such as families, acquaintanceships, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book's chapters are written by leading figures in communication, social psychology, sociology, and family studies who explore the methodological choices a researcher must make in order to study interpersonal interaction. To permit clear comparison, all chapters in this volume reference the same, common research problem to develop examples, illustrate controversial issues, and describe the potential of the particular method...
Full Quivers
Dr Joe McCall, a retired geologist, aged 91, published in 2011 a biography of his great-great-grandfather, George Pilkington, 'The Pilkington Gene'. The central figures here are his maternal grandfather, Dr Joseph Kidd and himself. He recounts Dr Kidd's life, from birth as the seventeenth and last surviving child of a family of 20, in Limerick in the early 19th C. Joseph tended the Irish Potato Famine and then became a consultant physician in London, with Disraeli among his patients: he married twice and had 15 children. Joe's father's work at the Ballantyne Press (and Vale Press) is mentioned. He covers his happy early life at the tail of a family of seven, in Suffolk and Sussex, his school...
The Journeyman's Tale
This is the third biographical book by Dr Joe McCall, a geologist, aged 92. Entirely autobiographical ('The Pilkington Gene' and 'Full Quivers' are mixed bio- and autobiographical), this covers the years 1940-60. It commences with his call to the R.A.S.C. in WW2. In England, he had a close encounter with German bomb at Bulford in 1941, before sailing off to Madagascar in a Falkland-style exercise, initiated by Churchill at about a week's notice. He took part in three Combined Operations landings: afterwards, he went to East Africa in 1943, serving from Ethiopia to Tanzania. He returned to University, obtained first class honours at Imperial College, and did two years postgraduate study, mapp...
Relationships
This volume on close relationships in adulthood discusses the central issues in the field and points the way towards the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about human relationships. The self, interactions, relationships and grops are treated as dynaimc proceses in dialectical relations with each other and with the socio-cultural structure of norms, values, beliefs and institutions.; Early chpaters introduce aspecs of the slef relevant to the dynaimcs of intercayions and relationships: Intrapsychic Processes Of Cognition And Emotion Are Emphasized. These Are followed by chapters discussing the principle characteristics of relationships. Seven further chapters focus on the processes involved in the dynaimcs of relationships, and later chapters synthesize previous ones in discussions of love and friendship, and the nature of relationship change. The focus throughot the text is on current work and current controversy, placed against a background of knowledge that has been built up in recent decades.
The Pilkington Gene
Geologist Joe McCall provides a biography of his maternal grandfather George Pilkington, a man of noble achivement who did not let three severe misfortunes in his life ever discourage him.
Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Second Edition
"This entirely updated and enlarged Second Edition of a landmark reference/text continues to provide comprehensive coverage of every important aspect of policy studies--discussing concepts, methods, utilization, formation, and implementation both internationally and across each level of government."
Culture, Media, Language
First published in 2004. A collection of the pioneering work from The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Developmental Science and the Holistic Approach
This volume celebrates David Magnusson's career-long contributions with a collection of chapters by internationally-renowned colleagues on the holistic approach that is transforming developmental psychology. For developmentalists and lifespan researchers
Friendship
In Friendship, Francesco Alberoni differentiates friendship from other interpersonal relationships and shows that the friendship encounter embodies justice and thus resists dehumanizing societal trends. The ideals of friendship enjoin us to realize the republican virtues in everyday life.
