The Palgrave Handbook Of Relational Sociology

Author : François Dépelteau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319660055
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology written by François Dépelteau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : François Dépelteau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113740700X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applying Relational Sociology written by François Dépelteau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.

Author : Elżbieta Hałas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031416260
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methodology of Relational Sociology written by Elżbieta Hałas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book addressing explicitly and specifically the methodological issues of relational sociology, and more broadly of the new relational paradigm in social sciences. The dynamically developing relational movement in social and cultural sciences is fueled by various classical and contemporary theoretical inspirations. Relational approaches propose various models of relational analyses, such as field analysis, social space analysis, network analysis, or the critical realist relational heuristic. The relational turn, which promotes interdisciplinarity in research, simultaneously reflects the drive towards an innovative reconstruction of sociology. Contemporary relational sociology is at the forefront of the relational movement. The program of relational sociology is still being shaped, frequently becoming the subject of discussions with different standpoints expressed. The aim of this book is to reflect on various relational approaches and models of relational analysis. Answers to two basic questions are sought: Are there foundations for a methodological unity of relational sociology, despite the diversity of approaches? And does relational sociology form a new paradigm? To answer these questions, it is necessary to investigate differences between the relational paradigm and the earlier, competing sociological paradigms. The answers to key questions show what innovations the methodology of relational sociology brings, i.e. what are the methodological consequences of the relational concept of the social fact. The broadly defined horizon of methodological issues is presented. The book creates an open space for discussion on various approaches and varieties of relational analysis, as well as the possibility of their methodological synthesis within relational sociology.

Author : J. Holmwood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137318864
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain written by J. Holmwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this Handbook maps the discipline and the British contribution.

Author : Paul C. Luken
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303054222X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography written by Paul C. Luken and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles of institutional ethnography (IE), but also captures current developments, approaches, and debates. Now widely known as a “sociology for people,” IE offers the tools to uncover the social relations shaping the everyday world in which we live and is utilized by scholars and social activists in sociology and beyond, including such fields as education, nursing, social work, linguistics, health and medical care, environmental studies, and other social-service related fields. Covering the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of IE, recent developments, and current areas of research and application that have yet to appear in the literature, The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography is suitable for both experienced practitioners of institutional ethnography and those who are exploring this approach for the first time.

Author : Godwyn, Mary
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839103264
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations written by Godwyn, Mary and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original contributions from leading experts in the field, this cutting-edge Research Handbook combines theoretical advancement with the newest empirical research to explore the sociology of organizations. While including the traditional study of formal, corporate business organizations, the Handbook also explores more transitory, informal grassroots organizations, such as NGOs and artist communities.

Author : Peeter Selg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030487806
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Relational Political Analysis written by Peeter Selg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications.

Author : C. Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113734265X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Relational Sociology written by C. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.

Author : Gregor Fitzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000195716
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies written by Gregor Fitzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety, and creativity of contemporary international research on Georg Simmel’s work. Starting with the established role of Simmel as a classical author of sociology, and including the growing interest in his work in the domain of philosophy, this volume explores the research on Simmel in several further disciplines including art, social aesthetics, literature, theatre, essayism, and critical theory, as well as in the debates on cosmopolitanism, economic pathologies of life, freedom, modernity, religion, and nationalism. Bringing together contributions from leading specialists in research on Simmel, the book is thematically arranged in order to highlight the relevance of his oeuvre for different fields of recent research, with a further section tracing the most important paths that Simmel’s reception has taken in the world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, and to sociologists, philosophers, and social theorists in particular, with interest in Simmel’s thought.

Author : Peeter Selg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031240340
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems written by Peeter Selg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book initiates a relational turn in policy making and governance by developing further relational political analysis and by taking relational thinking to bear on not just analytic/descriptive issues, but also to normative/prescriptive issues. The need for such a turn, this book argues, comes from the ever-increasing relevance of addressing the so-called wicked problems of governance like climate change, COVID-19 kinds of pandemics, global economic recessions and refugee crises. The book argues for a need to rethink governance as a process from the relational point of view to spur its potential for addressing these problems. What needs to be rethought is not so much the specific tools or resources of governance, but the very issue of whether governance should be seen in terms of tools and resources in the first place. This book contributes to this discussion by consolidating the relational approaches to governance thus far and by taking them to a next – normative/prescriptive – level.