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.

Conclusion: Connections More Than Matter!—Relational Understandings of Football Fans’ Collective Actions

Abstract: This chapter brings together the themes of the book to summarize both the findings and a cultural relational sociological approach. In concluding the book, the chapter discusses the concept of a football ‘club’ as a project with inherently relational and collective properties and the UK parliamentary debates around the ‘regulation’ of the sport as adding new actors to the relationships involved in the production and consumption of football.

Relación social y realismo crítico en la obra de Pierpaolo Donati Social relationships and critical realism in Pierpaolo Donati's work

Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the theoretic nucleus of relational sociology. Relational sociology begins with the observation that contemporary society is characterized by a progressive distancing between the human and the social and consequently the social is no longer conceived as a place for the human to inhabit. The human can be found outside of what constitutes the social context, in the internal being of individuals, tastes, preferences, individual feelings, or in the imagination and collective representation. Faced with such an historic outcome, relational

Introduction: Sociology Through Relation and Relational Sociology

Abstract: Chapter 1 introduces the argument about the relation, saying that it offers in sociology a perspective in order to analyse the activities that contribute to establishing a reciprocity as a special relationship between actors and institutions in society. It is first posited that there is a crucial difference between this argument and those of relational sociologists, who use “the relation” as a general term referring to concrete or manifest social relationships. Second, we lower the optimistic view of relational sociologists regarding the supposed pervasive presence of a relational scheme in the history of sociology. We take the observations of key French sociologists as examples illustrating both arguments.

Deleuze and Relational Sociology

Abstract: Deleuze’s philosophy is most often associated with literary criticism and cultural studies (in the humanities) and politics and international relations (in the social sciences). This chapter shows how a careful reading of Deleuze following early, key works, specifically Difference and Repetition, exposes a rigorous immanent philosophy which is capable of accounting for and contributing to relational sociology. Not only does Deleuze’s thought allow us to resist ad hoc appeals to determinism and voluntarism—in effect solving the structure–agency conundrum—but it presents the basis for a sociology that is in fact purely relational. It does this through its commitment to a univocal ontology that is divided into an intensive, virtual half and an extensive, actualized half. In a seldom-read book, The Fold, Deleuze presents the (social) world as an infinite series of folds—folds within folds—in which any entity/thing is both enveloped and enveloping. This suggests a sociology even more relational than Emirbayer’s transactional approach, but nevertheless allows for emergence and change as well as structure and stratification. Not only does Deleuze’s relational sociology imply a research paradigm in its own right, but it can help us to map the variations of what has come to be loosely called relational sociology.