Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged with. Drawing on rich empirical data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out to be explicit about the nature of ordinary relationships.

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University of Edinburgh, UK

Julie Brownlie

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Julie Brownlie is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her previous publications include the co-edited collection Researching Trust and Health.

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Book Title: Ordinary Relationships
Book Subtitle: A Sociological Study of Emotions, Reflexivity and Culture
Authors: Julie Brownlie
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318763
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34660-4Published: 22 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34481-9Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31876-3Published: 26 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 258
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Family, Emotion, Popular Science in Psychology

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Introduction: The Death of Ordinary Relationships?

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