From roommate disputes to family arguments, trouble is inevitable in
interpersonal relationships. In Everyday Troubles, Robert M. Emerson
explores the beginnings and development of the conflicts that occur in
our relationships with the people we regularly encounter—family
members, intimate partners, coworkers, and others—and the common
responses to such troubles. To examine these
issues, Emerson draws on interviews with college roommates, diaries
documenting a wide range of irritation with others, conversations with
people caring for family members suffering from Alzheimer’s, studies
of family interactions, neighborly disputes, and other personal
accounts. He considers how people respond to everyday troubles: in
non-confrontational fashion, by making low-visibility, often
secretive, changes in the relationship; more openly by directly
complaining to the other person; or by involving a third party, such
as friends or family. He then examines how some relational troubles
escalate toward extreme and even violent responses, in some cases
leading to the involvement of outside authorities like the police or
mental health specialists. By calling attention to the range of
possible reactions to conflicts in interpersonal relationships,
Emerson also reminds us that extreme, even criminal actions often
result when people fail to find ways to deal with trouble in moderate,
non-confrontational ways. Innovative and insightful, Everyday Troubles
is an illuminating look at how we deal with discord in our
relationships.
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ISBN
9780226238135
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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