Goals, Plans, and Mutual Understanding in Relationships
- 1 January 1993
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
In an effort to provide a meta-theoretical frame for understanding the past 25 years of social and personal relationships research, Duck (1991) suggested that a useful point of departure would be to focus on the personal meanings that those involved in relationships create for themselves and the mutual understandings they negotiate with their relational partners. He concluded his ambitious meta-theoretical statement by asserting the following set of postulates: The world is in need of interpretation and meaning, individuals construct meanings for themselves, while partaking of the meaning already available through language; Pairs of individuals develop [Page 31] refined overlapping meaning systems; Symbolic union and sharing of meanings underlies all aspects of relationships. (p. 29) These ...Keywords
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