The Darker Side of Family Communication: The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate...

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Loreen N. Olson Mark A. Fine

The Darker Side of Family Communication

The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate

Loreen N. Olson, Mark A. Fine

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
30 March 2016

Journalistic style guides; Communication studies; Sociology: family & relationships; Family psychology

Series: Lifespan Communication

This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes.

Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from the most respected scholars in their specialty areas. It is the first published work on the dark side of family communication scholarship to include critical theorizing. This makes it an important contribution to family communication research in general and dark side work more specifically. Such chapters examine how gender, race, class, and sexual orientation impact and are impacted by dark family communication. In addition to a micro, interaction-based exploration of how social location and dark family communication processes intersect, some chapters offer more social critiques of dark family communication (and how it is socially constructed) at a macro-level.

The volume is intended for scholars, researchers, and graduate students interested in the dark side of family communication and family dynamics. It is also well suited for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in family communication, dark side of family communication, family processes, family dynamics, family conflict, and family stress and coping.

Edited by: Loreen N. Olson, Mark A. Fine
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 5
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781433125379
ISBN 10: 1433125374
Series: Lifespan Communication
Pages: 339
Publication Date: 30 March 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Loreen N. Olson (PhD, University of Nebraska) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the lead author of The Dark Side of Family Communication and was previously the editor of the Journal of Family Communication. Mark A. Fine (PhD, The Ohio State University) is Professor and Chair in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was previously the editor of Family Relations and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and he is the author or editor of numerous books on families, family diversity, divorce, and family theories.

Reviews for The Darker Side of Family Communication: The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate

In this volume Loreen N. Olson, Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds shed much needed light on the dark side of family communication. By unearthing the layers of familial relating to reveal numerous caverns of darkness, they generate new landscapes for students and scholars of the dark side and family communication. Erin Willer, University of Denver Much has been written on the 'dark side' of communication. This is the first book actually to define what dark communication is, explain how it forms, identify what effect it has, recommend how to 'brighten it, ' and tie all this together in a Darkness Model of Family Communication. Dudley Cahn, SUNY at New Paltz