Changing relations : achieving intimacy in a time of social transition

Author

Goodwin, Robin, 1964-

Title

Changing relations : achieving intimacy in a time of social transition / Robin Goodwin.

Format

Book

Published

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Description

xxi, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Uniform series

Advances in personal relationships (Cambridge, England)

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-215) and index.

Contents

• The nature of social change
• The myth of modernisation?
• More beautiful than a monkey: the achievement of intimacy
• Friends and social networks
• Sex and the modern city
• Marriage and the family
• Modelling social change and relationships.

Kinsey subjects

Interpersonal relations.
Psychology.
Social conditions.

ISBN

9780521842044 (hardback)
0521842042 (hardback)