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Relational sociology

About: Relational sociology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 215 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6927 citations. The topic is also known as: Structural interactionism.


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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the dynamic interplay among structure, culture, and agency on which Emirbayer builds his research agenda for relational sociology and examine the enduring influences of John Dewey and Pierre Bourdieu on Emirbayers' relational thinking.
Abstract: Mustafa Emirbayer’s “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology” calls for a process-in-time understanding of the unfolding interaction between structure and agency that reproduces and transforms practical action. This chapter seeks to situate Emirbayer’s Manifesto essay within his broader intellectual pursuits in the direction of relational sociology. We begin the chapter by outlining the dynamic interplay among structure, culture, and agency on which Emirbayer builds his research agenda for relational sociology. We then examine the enduring influences of John Dewey and Pierre Bourdieu on Emirbayer’s relational thinking. Finally, we discuss Emirbayer and Desmond’s research agenda for studying the racial order in America as a prototype of Emirbayerian relational sociology in practice.

5 citations

Reference EntryDOI
06 Sep 2018
TL;DR: The authors argue that sociological work on deliberation has by and large moved away from big ideas toward a narrow project that is somewhat disconnected from the world outside the ivory tower, and advocate an approach to deliberation that engages with the relational turn of sociology, focusing less on decision-making outcomes and more on social relations and dynamics.
Abstract: Sociology has long been interested in the study of deliberation; it is a “big idea” that might guide the organization of modern social life. While in some strands of sociology it still is, this chapter argues that sociological work on deliberation has by and large moved away from big ideas toward a narrow project that is somewhat disconnected from the world outside the ivory tower. The chapter presents the best sociology has to offer scholars of deliberation, with a focus on ideas and practice. Specifically, the chapter advocates an approach to deliberation that engages with the relational turn of sociology, focusing less on decision-making outcomes and more on social relations and dynamics.

5 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the social implications of an ill or deformed child and the role of narrative in addressing social demands and the problems faced by parents in infant intensive care contexts, arguing that theorising the infant within a relational framework allows agency to be attributed to the infant and parents while also recognising the importance of the intimate social world and interactional context that it is expressed within.
Abstract: The relationship of parents and infants is ruptured at birth in the context of urgent issues such as congenital heart defects. The infants referred to in 10 semi-structured interviews had undergone cardiac surgery in a children's hospital in Australia and were participating in a new programme known as Heart Beads instigated by the cardiac ward nurses. Within the biomedical context infants are often alienated from their parents and treated as isolated bodies. The paper discusses the social implications of an ill or deformed child and the role of narrative in addressing social demands and the problems faced by parents in infant intensive care contexts. It is argued that theorising the infant within a relational framework allows agency to be attributed to the infant and parents while also recognising the importance of the intimate social world and interactional context that it is expressed within. The paper draws on Nick Crossley's relational sociology to highlight the importance of the relational embodiment that encompasses infants within a social world preceding them and enveloping them. The narrative is developed by parents in order to facilitate the social expression and integration of their child and thus plays a particularly social role in the context of infant surgery, rather than serving to adjust the individual to new circumstances. Exploring the role of narrative in this social relational sense is important for bringing the mother and the family back into the context and survival of the infant both physically and socially.

5 citations

Journal Article
TL;DR: In this article, the significance of creating China's relational sociology at a time of socioeconomic transformation is analyzed, and a proposal about how to develop and enhance the research programs of relational sociology is made.
Abstract: Relational sociology is a sociological study about the essence,underlying logic,and social influences of social relationships.The author analyzes the significance of creating China′s relational sociology at a time of socioeconomic transformation,evaluates the position this subject of study occupies in the field of sociology,raises the point that China′s relational sociology must satisfy internationally recognized scholarly standards,and makes a proposal about how to develop and enhance the research programs of relational sociology.

5 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
10 Oct 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the analytical relation between senses, space, and the stranger in Simmel's relational thought, and find that the senses are a resource of meaning in the construction and exclusion of the stranger.
Abstract: This article explores the analytical relation between senses, space, and the stranger in Simmel’s relational thought. We can say that Simmel provides an analytical framework for thinking of how we create forms of socialization that take place from the senses. The senses mark areas of familiarity and strangeness among people and, the senses are a resource of meaning in the construction and exclusion of the stranger. Specifically, the article recovers Simmel's reflections regarding the relationship of estrangement that develops from the gaze, smell, and hearing, supplemented by recent empirical research in these fields and some examples related to Latin American cities.

5 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202113
202018
201910
201841
201727
201611