Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: On
✍ Christopher Powell, François Dépelteau (eds.)
📂 Library
📅 2013
🏛 Palgrave Macmillan US
🌐 English
✦ LIBER ✦
📁
Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues
✍ Scribed by François Dépelteau, Christopher Powell
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 249
- Category
- Library
⬇ Acquire This Volume
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From networks to fields to figurations to discourses, relational ideas have become common in social science, and a distinct relational sociology has emerged over the past decade and a half. But so far, this paradigm shift has raised as many questions as it answers. Just what are 'relations', precisely? How do we observe and measure them? How does relational thinking change what we already know about society? What new questions does it invite us to ask? This volume and its companion volume Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, and Society bring together, for the first time, the leading experts and up-and-coming scholars in the field to address fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
✦ Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Table vii
Introduction 1
Christopher Powell and François Dépelteau
1 Feminist Preludes to Relational Sociology 13
Sarah Redshaw
2 Relational Sociology and Historical Materialism: Three Conversation Starters 27
Kenneth Fish
3 Relational Sociology, Theoretical Inhumanism, and the Problem of the Nonhuman 45
Craig McFarlane
4 Advancing Sociology through a Focus on Dynamic Relations 67
Debbie Kasper
5 Norbert Elias on Relations: Insights and Perspectives 87
Charalambos Tsekeris
6 Critical Strategies for Implementing a Relational Sociological Paradigm: Elias, Bourdieu, and Uncivilized Sociological Theoretical Struggles 105
Christopher Thorpe
7 Interactions, Juxtapositions, and Tastes: Conceptualizing “Relations” in Relational Sociology 123
Nick Crossley
8 Collective Reflexivity: A Relational Case for It 145
Margaret S. Archer
9 What Is the Direction of the “Relational Turn”? 163
François Dépelteau
10 Radical Relationism: A Proposal 187
Christopher Powell
11 Relational Sociology as Fighting Words 209
Mustafa Emirbayer
References 213
Notes on Contributors 231
Index 235
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing High
✍ Jian Li, Xudong Zhu
📂 Library
📅 2019
🏛 Springer Singapore
🌐 English
<p>This book provides a fresh and unique overview of the modernization and internationalization of Chinese higher education, focusing on Chinese higher education from 1949 to 2018. It presents the Ontological Positivism Model (Conceptualization-Explicit-Formal-Share), concentrating on concepts of Ch
Sociology through Relation: Theoretical
✍ Christian Papilloud (auth.)
📂 Library
📅 2018
🏛 Palgrave Macmillan
🌐 English
<p>This book delivers a top-down understanding of relation as a macro-phenomenon in society. This understanding rests on the reconstruction of an ongoing debate in the French tradition about the purpose of a relational perspective in sociology and the social sciences. Christian Papilloud analyzes th
Decolonizing Grand Theories: Postcolonia
✍ Sanjeev Kumar H.M.
📂 Library
📅 2023
🏛 Palgrave Macmillan
🌐 English
<p><span>This book examines the modes by which the grand theories of International Relations can be restructured at the level of meta-theory. It emphasizes the inability of grand theories to make sense of international relations in postcolonial societies and argues to engage in such restructuring in
Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, the
✍ Olga Blanco-Carrión; Antonio Barcelona; Rossella Pannain
📂 Library
📅 2018
🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company
🌐 English
The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a un
Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism
✍ Nino B. Cocchiarella
📂 Library
📅 2007
🏛 Springer
🌐 English
Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms. This book offers an account of the general features and methodology of formal ontology. The book defends conceptual realism as the best system to adopt based on a logic of natural kinds.