Relationships are one of the levels of influence or mutual influence. All relationships are divided into «Relationship to …» and «Relationship to …».
When people talk about their relation to to something or someone, they talk about their most general program of behavior and the state of readiness for it.
“I love my mother, I like tomatoes, but I hate lessons” — this is an “attitude towards …”. See Attitude
“Relationships with…” is the answer to the question “Who is who who?” or “What what what?”
I have an excellent relationship with my mother, we don’t understand each other with the teacher, but the relationship with my girlfriend is very different …
This article is about “Relations with”, “relationships between”, about Relationships.
Relationship types
Relationships are natural, social and individual (personal).
Natural relations — the relations of objects of nature, are set by the laws of nature. They include spatial relationships (I am more to the right, he is more to the left), physical (I am lighter, he is heavier), nutritional (grass and herbivores), and others.
When an animal eats grass or another animal, it does so as naturally and naturally as you breathe or blink. Nothing personal.
Social relations — the relations of social individuals, are set by social rules, traditions and regulations. These are administrative relations (I am the boss, he is a subordinate), legal (I am a creditor, he is a debtor), national and international, civil and military.
Social relations create their own psychological relations: the traditional psychology of a boss and a subordinate, a creditor and a debtor, features of national psychology and interethnic relations.
Personal, individual relations, or simply relations — the relations of people as carriers of individual cultural experience. Such relationships (one’s own or someone else’s, beloved or nasty, persecutor and victim) are determined by individual decisions or emotions, established views, attitudes and habits between people. Speaking about relationships with someone or something, they usually describe opportunities and limitations, desires and protests, rights and obligations of mutual influence. See →
Formal relationships are the name of social relationships in which people turn off their personal and begin to be guided only by rules and conventions. Informal relationships are those where there is a personal moment. See →
Relationships between people: what and why?
There are always relationships between people. «Are you in a relationship?» or “I ended my relationship with him!” It’s just about these personal relationships.
Personal relations are the relations of people as carriers of individual cultural experience. In life, this is what people simply call: «relationships.»
Such relationships (one’s own or someone else’s, beloved or nasty) are determined by individual decisions or emotions, established views, attitudes and habits between people. Speaking about relationships with someone or something, they usually describe opportunities and limitations, desires and protests, rights and obligations of mutual influence. Further see →