Relationships as Unfinished Business: Out of the Frying Pan and into the 1990s

Duck, Steven W.

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“…CPM's assumptions about the ongoing nature of privacy management and the potential for privacy boundaries to shift are consistent with Duck's (1990) call for a process understanding of relational communication. Duck (1990) argued that relational processes are not featured in figures, nor understood as "cognitive operations that are not directly observable" (p. 17).…”

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“…Using a communication privacy management (CPM) framework (Petronio, 2002), we explore the nature of shifting privacy boundaries for women dealing with infertility and conceptualize privacy management as ongoing, unfinished business (Duck, 1990). In the following sections, we provide background information on infertility and discuss the potential trajectories that accompany a fertility problem.…”

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“…Duck (1990) argued that relational processes are not featured in figures, nor understood as "cognitive operations that are not directly observable" (p. 17). Rather, relational communication must be understood temporally; such communication is an ongoing, process-based experience, containing turning points and trajectories (Duck, 1990; for related arguments also see Afifi & Keith, 2004;Caughlin, Huston, & Houts, 2000). Thus, privacy management is best conceptualized as a process rather than an event.…”

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Privacy Management as Unfinished Business: Shifting Boundaries in the Context of Infertility

Bute

Vik

2010

Communication Studies

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Privacy dilemmas are prevalent for women who experience a fertility problem. In this study, we use communication privacy management (CPM) theory to explore how privacy boundaries shift over time as women cope with infertility. Based on interviews with 23 women, we found that women described distinctive patterns of shifting privacy boundaries, including situations in which the experience of infertility served as a change agent, patterns in which women became more or less open over time, and patterns that indicated a continuous oscillation of boundaries.These ever-changing patterns of talk indicate that managing private information about infertility is unfinished business. The management of private information has been a topic of perennial interest to scholars in communication and related disciplines, and work by Altman and Taylor (1973), Petronio (1991, and others has sparked a wealth of scholarship in this area. Yet, despite calls for scholars to expand their theoretical and methodological approaches for understanding privacy management (e.g., Baxter and Sahlstein, 2000), much of the research examining disclosure, secrecy, and topic avoidance, treats privacy management processes as singular events rather than complicated, ever-emerging endeavors. Afifi, Caughlin, and Afifi (2007) noted that scholars too frequently define and discuss these communicative acts in dualistic terms by treating phenomena like disclosure and topic avoidance as two discrete categories in a bivariate construct. Such oversimplification does not, however, capture the full range of options when it comes to privacy management. Indeed, the complex process of managing private information, of deciding whether and how to disclose or avoid disclosing, of engaging in ongoing conversations, is too often reduced to a singular event.However, communication scholars are beginning to give greater attention to the ways that privacy management processes like disclosure, topic avoidance, secret keeping, and secret revelation unfold (e.g., Afifi & Steuber, 2009;Caughlin et al., 2008; Petronio & OstromBlonigen, 2008 ). We wish to contribute to the ongoing scholarly conversations about the emergent nature of privacy management and advance popular theory by bringing the temporal nature of privacy management to the forefront of scholarly inquiry. More specifically, our investigation conceptualizes privacy management as an ongoing, ever-changing process rather than any one singular event marked by precise end points. Conceptualizing privacy management as a process not only advances current theoretical understandings, it also has implications for individuals who are coping with life stressors that change and develop over time (e.g., chronic health conditions, divorce, financial crises). The experience of infertility is an example of one such stressor and provides a useful context for the present study. Women and couples who confront the challenges of a fertility problem have reported that infertility is a "transformational process" (Gonzalez, 2000, p. 619)...

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2010

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“…There has also been a recognition that relationships may be sustained by the exchange of gifts (Caplow, 1982;Cheal,1986) andlor the development of a dyadic culture, with its own rituals, pet names, etc. (Baxter, 1987;Duck, 1990b). Duck and Pond (1989) argue that people think about their interactions and discuss their interpretations of them, and that this may, in certain circumstances, lead them to modify their view of a relationship andlor their own behaviours in it.…”

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“…Within social psychology, Duck (1982Duck ( , 1990b has been active in examining the processes operating in the initiation, maintenance and dissolution of relationships. A re-evaluation of the importance of friendship relationships is implicit in network theory, social support and psychiatric sociology.…”

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Friendships between Women: A Critical Review

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Journal of Marriage and the Family

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Interpersonal Relationships

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2007

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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In any relationship, two participants are interdependent, where the behavior of each affects the outcomes of the other. Additionally, the individuals interact with each other in a series of interactions that are interrelated and affect each other. Individuals form many different kinds of relationships with other people, some of which are intimate and close (e.g., parent–child, spouse–spouse, friendships) and others which are not intimate and close (e.g., neighbor, teacher–student). Most of the research on interpersonal relationships has focused on those relationships that are close, intimate, and have high interdependence. In an influential book, Kelley and colleagues (1983) define a close relationship as one that is strong, frequent, and with diverse interdependence that lasts over a considerable period of time. In sociology, although the classic distinction between primary and secondary relationships has been expanded in the public realm (fleeting, routinized, quasi‐primary, and intimate‐secondary relationships), these close relationships (as described above) also can be categorized as primary groups, which provide support and nurture and socialize individuals to the norms of society.

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Relationships as Unfinished Business: Out of the Frying Pan and into the 1990s

Cited by 120 publications

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Privacy Management as Unfinished Business: Shifting Boundaries in the Context of Infertility

Privacy Management as Unfinished Business: Shifting Boundaries in the Context of Infertility

Friendships between Women: A Critical Review

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