The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology

ISBN-13: 9783319660042 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 686 str.

Francois Depelteau

Opis

This handbook on relational sociology is about a rapidly growing approach in the social sciences; an approach which is connected to the interests of a large, diverse pool of researchers across a range of disciplines.The book aims to elucidate the complexity and the scope of this growing approach by dealing with three central questions: where does relational sociology come from and what are its principal concerns? What are the main theoretical and methodological currents within relational sociology? What have we studied in relational sociology and what are the results? Relational sociology has been one of the key foundations of the 'relational turn' in human sciences since the 1980s, and offers the opportunity to redefine the basic epistemological and ontological principles of sociology as we know it.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Promise of the Relational Turn in Sociology

Part I: General Presentation of Relational Sociology

1. Relational Thinking in Sociology: Relevance, Concurrence and Dissonance

2. The Relation as Magical Operator: Overcoming the Divide between Relational and Processual Sociology

Part II: Approaches and Theories Associated with Relational Sociology: 

Pragmatism, Interactions, and Assemblages

3. Sociology of Infinitesimal Difference: Gabriel’s Tarde Heritage

4. Pluralism and Relationism in Social Theory: Lessons from the Tarde/Durkheim Debate

5. G.H. Mead and Relational Sociology: The Case of Concepts

6. Pragmatist Methodological Relationalism in Sociological Understanding of Evolving Human Culture

7. Gilles Deleuze and Relational Sociology

8. Triangular Relations: Michel Serres on Parasites, Angels, Quasi-objects, and the Virtual

9. Bruno Latour and Relational Sociology

Part III: Social Forms, System Theories, and Network Analysis

10. Georg Simmel and Relational Sociology

11. Georg Simmel’s Concepts of Forms of Sociation as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology

12. Switchings among Netdoms: The Relational Sociology of Harrison White

13. Relationalism and Social Networks

14. Is Niklas Luhmann a Relational Sociologist?

Part IV: Power Relations, Inequalities, and Conflicts

15. Charles Tilly and Relational Sociology

16. Michael Mann and Relational Sociology

17. Pierre Bourdieu and Relational Sociology

18. Relational Sociology and Postcolonial Theory: Sketches of a ‘Postcolonial Relationism’

19. ‘To Understand the Shore, it is not Enough… to Pick up an Empty Shell…’: Feminist Epistemologies, Ecological Thinking, and Relational Ontologies

Part V: Current Approaches in Relational Sociology 

20. Beyond the Manifesto: Mustafa Emirbayer and Relational Sociology

21. Critical Realism as Relational Sociology

22. An Original Relational Sociology Grounded in Critical Realism

23. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Networks

24. Networks, Interactions and Relations

25. From the Concept of ‘Trans-action’ to a Process-Relational Sociology

Part VI: Specific Issues and Concepts in Relational Sociology

26. Relational Agency

27. Power and Relational Sociology

28. Relational Radicalization

29. The Relational Meaning-Making of Riots: Narrative Logic and Network Performance of the London ‘Riots’

30. Music Sociology and Relational Perspective

31. Relational Sociology: Contributions to Understanding Residential Decision-Making in Later Life

32. Relations, Organizing, Leadership and Education

33. Marcel Mauss, the Gift and Relational Sociology

O autorze

François Dépelteau is Professor of Sociology at Laurentian University, Canada. He is a specialist in sociological theory and relational sociology, and has published many books and articles in journals such as Sociological Theory and The International Review of Sociology.