Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places By Calvin Morrill

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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 Together Alone Personal Relationships in Public PlacesLearned about this book here Together Alone Personal Relationships in Public Places