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Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to human behavior which relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. He evokes the detail of 'human reality', with an emphasis on the role of the emotions in the social bond.
Trade Review"The attempt to reach beyond standard methodologies to include material drawn from other sources is to be welcomed." Choice
"[Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis] is an ambitious and comprehensive enterprise....the book has fems of insight and connection well worth discovering." Joy Charlton, American Journal of Sociology
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Theory and Method: 1. Part/whole morphology: single case and comparative methods; 2. The limits of literary analyses of texts; Part II. Generating Theory: The Social Bond: 3. Punishment, child development, and the crime; 4. Boy's talk, girl's talk: a theory of social integration; 5. Origins of the First World War: integrating small parts and great wholes; Part III. Generating Theory: Emotions and Conflict: 6. Gender wars: love and conflict in Much Ado About Nothing; 7. Microanalysis of discourse: the case of Martha Johnson and her therapist; 8. Conflict in family systems; 9. Conclusion: integrating the human sciences.
