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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 article, the authors lay down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of football fans that can be gathered from the published literature in both the sociology of social movements and sport.
Abstract: This chapter lays down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of football fans that can be gathered from the published literature in both the sociology of social movements and the sociology of sport. These analytical touchstones are (i) the structures of and roles in collective action; (ii) affect, emotion, and collective effervescence; (iii) communication, cooperation, and conventions; (iv) mobilizing resources; (v) tactics; (vi) recruitment to collective action and ‘outcomes’ of mobilization; and (vii) the spaces and places of organization and action. Each is relationally defined and discussed.

2 citations

01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, a reflection on the evolving conditions of patronage networks in Argentina is provided, where Bourdieu and Luhmann's theories offer different perspectives from which it is possible to understand the dichotomy between individualism and institutional order in a society marked by mistrust.
Abstract: This paper seeks to provide a reflection on the evolving conditions of patronage networks in Argentina. Bourdieu and Luhmann’s sociological theories offer different perspectives from which it is possible to understand the dichotomy between individualism and institutional order in a society marked by mistrust. Then, Donati and Archer’s relational sociology can outline a way to overcome the patrimonial regimes that destroy social life.

2 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a change of approach in understanding and solving conflicts in the educational context is proposed, based on the one adopted in Pierpaolo Donati's relational sociology, to make the educational institution a relational context.
Abstract: Social precariousness is manifested today in the difficulty of man to create and maintain solid and lasting relationships, being germ of new social pathologies and cause of diverse conflicts such as school violence. This paper proposes a change of approach in understanding and solving conflicts in the educational context as the one adopted in Pierpaolo Donati’s relational sociology. Man is a relational being that coexists with others, by the same token, social relationships mean approaching and distancing, which is why the risk is always present as a potential conflict. Reflective and relational rationality allow us to appreciate the generative capacity of relationships to introduce changes that modify and humanize the relational context and make of the educational institution a relational context.

2 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, a central concept in Norbert Elias's thinking, a concept present in most if not all of his writings, is figuration, which is the orientation of his epistemological understanding and his firm intention to escape the dichotomies of classic sociology, first among them an opposition between individual and society in which the two seem posited as independent substances.
Abstract: If there is a central concept in Norbert Elias’s thinking, a concept present in most if not all of his writings, it is figuration. In that one notion we are given both the orientation of his epistemological understanding and his firm intention to escape the dichotomies of classic sociology, first among them an opposition between individual and society in which the two seem posited as independent substances. Less familiar, perhaps, is Elias’s relational sociology. Here his reasoning in terms of related levels for which no ultimate positioning relative to each other can be determined was also, as he saw it, an invitation to construct a unified science of social beings situated at the intersection of the various human and social sciences.

2 citations

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Chares Demetriou1
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: This paper presented an approach to relationalism developed in Charles Tilly's later work, which assigns the chief explanatory role in social inquiry to accounts of changes in social relations, thus an approach serving substantive theory rather than general theory.
Abstract: This chapter presents the distinctive approach to relationalism developed in Charles Tilly’s later work. It is an approach that assigns the chief explanatory role in social inquiry to accounts of changes in social relations, thus an approach serving substantive theory rather than general theory. In Tilly’s accounts, alterations of social relations typically configure into mechanisms and processes that explain central socio-political phenomena, especially at the macro and meso levels. Tilly developed explanations most particularly of democratization, social inequality, and contentious politics. The latter term, devised by Tilly, refers to political contention outside formal political institutions, in which actors raise claims that involve the government and affect others’ interests. This broad conceptualization—subsuming more common concepts such as social movements, revolutions, labor strikes, and so on—is characteristic of Tilly’s effort towards broad and innovative comparisons.

2 citations


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