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Originally published in 1987, Accounting for Relationships, which brought together work by the leading international scholars in the expanding field of personal relationships research at the time, was the first to concentrate entirely on people's accounting for their relationships. It represented a significant move away from the analysis of personal relationships through events and actions on which research had thus far been concentrated, focusing instead on our explanations, interpretations, understanding and conceptions of our relationships.
The underlying theme which runs through this collection is that we actually create the experience and reality of our relationships by our accounts of them, and the 'accounting' concept links together chapters covering a variety of topics and ranging from research reports to theoretical discussions. The editors have divided the book into three sections. The essays in the first section concentrate on the individual's 'inner world' and the psychological processes which underlie his or her understanding and knowledge of a relationship. In the second section the focus is on a more public or expressed level, linking accounts to action, communication and social goals. The third section widens the scope still further, dealing with social and historical origins of collective sense-making, and looking at the extent to which the meaning of a relationship is created independently of the individuals concerned.
This collection at once moved the investigation of personal relationships forward by focusing on an aspect which deserved to be given more central importance, and, with respect to social psychology in general, advanced a growing intellectual movement away from individualism towards a relational perspective. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Introduction Rosalie Burnett Section One - Interpersonal Understanding: Emotion, Construal and Reflection 1. Emotion, Decision and the Long-Term Course of Relationships David D. Clarke 2. Emotions and Understanding Persons Frances M. Berenson 3. Explorations of Self and Other in a Developing Relationship Sue Wilkinson 4. Remembering Relationship Development: Constructing a Context for Interactions Dorothy Miell 5. Reflection in Personal Relationships Rosalie Burnett Section Two - Accounting in Use: Functions, Action and Communication 6. Performed and Unperformable: A Guide to Accounts of Relationships Charles Antaki 7. The Nature and Motivations of Accounts for Failed Relationships Ann L. Weber, John H. Harvey and Melinda A. Stanley 8. Friendship Expectations John J. La Gaipa 9. Planning and Scheming: Strategies for Initiating Relationships Charles R. Berger 10. Interplay Between Relational Knowledge and Events Sally Planalp 11. Cognition and Communication in the Relationship Process Leslie A. Baxter Section Three - Constructing Relationships: Representation, Reality and Rhetoric 12. Adding Apples and Oranges: Investigators' Implicit Theories About Personal Relationships Steve Duck 13. The Social Construction of an 'Us': Problems of Accountability and Narratology John Shotter 14. The Representation of Personal Relationships in Television Drama: Realism, Convention and Morality Sonia M. Livingstone 15. Narratives of Relationship Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen 16. From Self-Reports to Narrative Discourse: Reconstructing the Voice of Experience in Personal Relationship Research Patrick McGhee. Endpiece Rosalie Burnett. Postword: The Idea of the Account and Future Research Patrick McGhee. Name Index. Subject Index.
