The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology

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This handbook on relational sociology covers a rapidly growing approach in the social sciences—one which is connected to the interests of a large, diverse pool of researchers across a range of disciplines. Relational sociology has been one of the key foundations of the “relational turn” in human sciences since the 1980s, and it offers a unique opportunity to redefine the basic epistemological and ontological principles of sociology as we know it. The contributors collected here aim to elucidate the complexity and the scope of this growing approach by dealing with three central questions: Where does relational sociology come from and what are its principal concerns? What are the main theoretical and methodological currents within relational sociology? What have we studied in relational sociology and what are the results? Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Relational Thinking in Sociology: Relevance, Concurrence and Dissonance (François Dépelteau)....Pages 3-33 The Relation as Magical Operator: Overcoming the Divide Between Relational and Processual Sociology (Frédéric Vandenberghe)....Pages 35-57 Front Matter ....Pages 59-61 Sociology of Infinitesimal Difference. Gabriel Tarde’s Heritage (Sergio Tonkonoff)....Pages 63-83 Pluralism and Relationalism in Social Theory: Lessons from the Tarde–Durkheim Debate (David Toews)....Pages 85-99 G.H. Mead and Relational Sociology: The Case of Concepts (Jean-François Côté)....Pages 101-117 Pragmatist Methodological Relationalism in Sociological Understanding of Evolving Human Culture (Osmo Kivinen, Tero Piiroinen)....Pages 119-141 Deleuze and Relational Sociology (Peter Lenco)....Pages 143-160 Triangular Relations (Olli Pyyhtinen)....Pages 161-182 Bruno Latour and Relational Sociology (Christian Papilloud)....Pages 183-197 Front Matter ....Pages 199-199 Georg Simmel and Relational Sociology (Christian Papilloud)....Pages 201-215 Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology (Natàlia Cantó-Milà)....Pages 217-230 Switchings Among Netdoms: The Relational Sociology of Harrison C. White (Jorge Fontdevila)....Pages 231-269 Relationalism and Social Networks (Emily Erikson)....Pages 271-287 Is Niklas Luhmann a Relational Sociologist? (Jean-Sébastien Guy)....Pages 289-304 Front Matter ....Pages 305-305 Charles Tilly and Relational Sociology (Chares Demetriou)....Pages 307-324 Mann and Relational Sociology (Tõnis Saarts, Peeter Selg)....Pages 325-341 Pierre Bourdieu and Relational Sociology (Christian Papilloud, Eva-Maria Schultze)....Pages 343-356 Relational Sociology and Postcolonial Theory: Sketches of a “Postcolonial Relationalism” (Julian Go)....Pages 357-373 Shorelines, Seashells, and Seeds: Feminist Epistemologies, Ecological Thinking, and Relational Ontologies (Andrea Doucet)....Pages 375-391 Front Matter ....Pages 393-393 Beyond the Manifesto: Mustafa Emirbayer and Relational Sociology (Lily Liang, Sida Liu)....Pages 395-411 Critical Realism as Relational Sociology (Douglas V. Porpora)....Pages 413-429 An Original Relational Sociology Grounded in Critical Realism (Pierpaolo Donati)....Pages 431-456 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Networks (Jan A. Fuhse)....Pages 457-479 Networks, Interactions and Relations (Nick Crossley)....Pages 481-498 From the Concept of ‘Trans-Action’ to a Process-Relational Sociology (François Dépelteau)....Pages 499-519 Front Matter ....Pages 521-521 Relational Agency (Ian Burkitt)....Pages 523-538 Power and Relational Sociology (Peeter Selg)....Pages 539-557 Relational Radicalization (Chares Demetriou, Eitan Y. Alimi)....Pages 559-578 The Relational Meaning-Making of Riots: Narrative Logic and Network Performance of the London “Riots” (Christian Morgner)....Pages 579-600 Music Sociology in Relational Perspective (Nick Crossley)....Pages 601-619 Relational Sociology: Contributions to Understanding Residential Relocation Decisions in Later Life (Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby)....Pages 621-639 Relations, Organising, Leadership and Education (Scott Eacott)....Pages 641-661 Marcel Mauss, the Gift and Relational Sociology (Christian Papilloud)....Pages 663-675 Back Matter ....Pages 677-686