Overview
- Provides a comprehensive view of methodological approaches in the rapidly developing new relational paradigm
- Shows what innovations the methodology of relational sociology brings
- Reflects on various relational approaches and models of relational analysis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology (PSRS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Approaches for Relational Studies
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Advances in Relational Analyses
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Elżbieta Hałas is Full Professor of Humanities and Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her fields of interest include: relational perspectives in social theory, cultural sociology, symbolic interactionism, social symbolism, politics of symbolization and cultural memory. Her research is focused on the relational, semiotic and pragmatic dimensions of contemporary cultural and social transformations. In 2016, she initiated international seminars on relational sociology in Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methodology of Relational Sociology
Book Subtitle: Approaches and Analyses
Editors: Elżbieta Hałas
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41626-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41625-5Published: 31 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41628-6Due: 31 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41626-2Published: 30 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-4110
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4129
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 323
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociological Theory, Social Sciences, general, Social Theory