Changing Relations

Robin Goodwin is professor of social psychology at Brunel University, West London. A winner of the New Faculty (Steve Duck) Prize by the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, he is associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, associate editor at the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and past chair of the publications committee for the International Network on Personal Relationships.

• 1. Defining and measuring social change; 2. The myth of modernisation?; 3. More beautiful than a monkey: the achievement of intimacy; 4. Friends and social networks; 5. Sex and the modern city; 6. Marriage and the family; 7. Modeling social change and relationships.

“Robin Goodwin’s scholarship is truly interdisciplinary and international. It represents a tremendous contribution to the field of personal relationships, which is still largely multidisciplinary and dominated by scholars in English-speaking countries. As he explains how relationships adapt to a rapidly changing and confusing world, Goodwin does a masterful job of connecting macro-level theories of social change to micro-level theories of social interaction. In so doing, he provides a thorough review of the literature including oft-cited references as well as more obscure ones.” —Rebecca G. Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro