Relational Sociology: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences - Rilegato

Donati, Pierpaolo

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ISBN 10: 0415567483 ISBN 13: 9780415567480

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2010

Riassunto

‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational Sociology develops ‘upwards’ from sociology into a Realist meta-theory, unlike Roy Baskhar’s philosophy of science that works ‘downwards’ and ‘underlabours’ for the social sciences.

This book systematically introduces Donati’s Relational Sociology to an English readership for the first time since he began to advance his approach thirty years ago. In this eagerly awaited book, Pierpaolo Donati shifts the focus of sociological theory onto the relational order at all levels. He argues that society is constituted by the relations people create with one another, their emergent properties and powers, and internal and external causal effects.

Relational Sociology provides a distinctive variant upon the Realist theoretical conspectus, especially because of its ability to account for social integration. It will stimulate debate amongst realists themselves and, of course, with the adversaries of realism. It is a valuable new resource for students of social theory and practising social theorists.

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L'autore:

Pierpaolo Donati is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna (Italy). Past-President of the Italian Sociological Association, he is known as the founder of ‘relational sociology’ or the ‘relational theory of society’, an independently developed form of critical realism. He has published more than 600 works (see: Building a Relational Theory of Society: A Sociological Journey, in M. Deflem ed., Sociologists in a Global Age. Biographical Perspectives, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007).

Contenuti:

Introduction: Prospects for a Relational Sociology  Chapter 1. The Relational Paradigm; its implications for the understanding and organization of Society  Chapter 2. Society as a Relation   Chapter 3. Critical Realism as viewed by Relational Sociology  Chapter 4. Observing and Thinking Relationally: the premises of the relational theory of society  Chapter 5. Social Change in the light of Relational Sociology  Chapter 6. Reflexivity after Modernity: From the viewpoint of Relational Sociology  Chapter 7. Doing Sociology in the Age of Globalisation

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415567483
• ISBN 13: 9780415567480
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 254