Description
Bringing a social justice lens to daily interpersonal relationships, Just Relationships offers a perspective on existing social science theory that demonstrates how our personal relationships should be grounded in fairness and justice. Douglas Kelley utilizes concepts from a variety of academic disciplines and helping professions to examine the barriers encountered in achieving balanced partnerships. This student-friendly book brings the important new perspective of social justice to courses focusing on interpersonal relationships and family relationships, supplementing traditional textbooks. This book presents key relationship theories in each chapter and then applies them from a social justice perspective; uses thought-provoking case studies and guiding questions to enhance student learning; examines a number of different types of interpersonal relationships including family, friends, lovers, and mentor-mentee relationships within a variety of socioeconomic and sociocultural contexts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Forward by Valerie Manusov
Preface: The Just Path
Cases and Concepts
Part One: Imagining Just Relationships—Perspectives
Chapter One Foundations
Chapter Two Just Relationships
Chapter Three Good Relationships
Chapter Four Love Relationships
Chapter Five Interpersonal Advocacy: Creating Spaces
Part Two: Barriers to Just Relationships: Perceptions that Separate
Chapter Six Worldview: Your Relationship Frame
Chapter Seven Dehumanizing the Other
Chapter Eight Saving Face
Chapter Nine Shame on You, Shame on Me
Part Three: Creating Just Relationships
Chapter Ten Resilience: Ordinary Magic
Chapter Eleven Engaging Conflict
Chapter Twelve Forgiveness: Choosing How You Want to Live
Chapter Thirteen The Art of Reconciliation: Imagining a Just Future
Part Four: Just Musings
