Together Alone
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anthropology
bars
bus stops
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city streets
communal areas
contemporary life
cultural anthropologists
discussion groups
emotional closeness
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family relationships
interpersonal relationships
nonfiction study
parking lots
passing strangers
personal relationships
private lives
public spaces
public sphere
retail stores
school setting
social interaction
social perspective
social relationships
social ties
workplace relationships
Product details
- ISBN 9780520245235
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, Together Alone ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships conducted in public spaces. While most studies of social interaction have gone behind closed doors to focus on relationships in the family, school, and workplace, this innovative collection pushes the boundaries of the field by analyzing both fleeting and anchored relationships in the seldom-studied communal areas where much of contemporary life takes place. The contributors shed light on the diversity and character of day-to-day negotiations in public spaces and at the same time illuminate how these social ties paradoxically blend aspects of durability and brevity, of emotional closeness and distance, of being together and alone.
Calvin Morrill is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations (1995). David A. Snow is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor of The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (2003) and Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (California, 1993). Cindy H. White is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
