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Everyday Troubles: The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
Robert M. Emerson
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Description for Everyday Troubles: The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
Paperback. From roommate disputes to family arguments, trouble is inevitable in interpersonal relationships. The author 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. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: GTJ; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226237947
SKU
V9780226237947
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About Robert M. Emerson
Robert M. Emerson is professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Judging Delinquents: Context and Process in Juvenile Court, editor of Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations, and coauthor of Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes.
Reviews for Everyday Troubles: The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
"Emerson has written his magnum opus-a pathbreaking work destined to be a classic because it offers fresh insights into relationship troubles in everyday life that are enduring universal concerns. This achievement is the culmination of a career devoted to exploring many kinds of interpersonal relationships and the differences and similarities between them. When brought together, as Emerson does here, the ... Read more