Accounting for Relationships: Explanation, Representation and Knowledge (Psychology Revivals)

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 psychologica