Social Interaction

Kindness – the little thing that matters most aims to motivate and inspire by showing readers what a difference even a small act of kindness can ma...

A Good Talk is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities - conversation. Drawing on over forty years of experience ...

This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, f...

A beautifully simple guide to the relationship skills we all so deeply need, but most of us don’t know how to access. This book belongs firmly on t...

The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal t...

How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea...

‘Funny, emotional and deeply inspiring, this is perfect for anyone wanting to break out of their comfort zone’ HeatWhat would happen if a shy intro...

The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the mos...

Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American ci...

This issue focuses on "radical interactionism," which recent emergence as an alternative perspective to conventional symbolic interactionism has sp...

The concept of the "public intellectual" has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapult...

Every encounter begins with a greeting. Be it a quick ‘Hello!’ or the somewhat longer and gracious ‘Sula manchwanta galunga omugobe!’ shaking hands...