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.

Феномен спорта в дискурсе экономической социологии

Abstract: The article is devoted to some fundamental issues of the sociology of sport. As a research approach we take modern relational sociology. With its help one can see the social content of sport, its structure as a social activity and a place in the social system, which currently dominates the economy. The special role of the economy, among other fields of public life has long been studied since the time of Karl Marx. However, there is a danger of misunderstanding the true complexity of the relationship between sports and economy, if not to interpret the social context of each of these structures, and not try to catch the correlation components. The proposed solution places sports within modern discourse of economic sociology. However, the focus on economic relations leaves in the shadow relationships between sport and other social spheres.

Al di là del bene e del male. la vocazione etica della sociologia relazionale e la ricerca sociologica come coscienza critica della modernità

Abstract: The paper aims at analyzing the relation between ethics and sociology, wondering the chance to get beyond the actual divisionism (and the impossibility to reduce prescriptive assertions - ethical field - to descriptive assertions - sociological field). From the very beginning the social science had to do with moral facts and the first sociologists (Simmel, Durkheim and Weber) treated the moral phenomena such as relevant to the comprehension of the social and collective agency. Despite of a first fruitful dialogue between ethics and sociology, in the present debates both of them seem to be recognized as irreconcilable and autonomous sciences. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational Sociology demonstrates how to save the original and authentic relation between sociology and ethics: the former has indeed the purpose to describe the intersection between individual and social sphere by the emergent form of the "social relation". It is necessary to treat together the value dimension of social relation (the L of "latency" in the relational reformulation of AGIL scheme) and the intrinsic normative social agency of individuals (the I of "integration"). For heuristic reasons the reflexivity issue in the relational paradigm implies that we must consider sociology as the "moral conscience" of modernity (Donati). In his last studies the reflexivity is considered the connotation of inner social relation in the morphogenetic society: sociology may, then, represent the way to get access to the reflexive-relational capability of modern individuals-in-society.