Sociology through Relation Theoretical Assessments from the French Tradition /

• Main Author: Papilloud, Christian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Sociology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Social Theory.; Sociological Theory.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

This book delivers a top-down understanding of relation as a macro-phenomenon in society. This understanding rests on the reconstruction of an ongoing debate in the French tradition about the purpose of a relational perspective in sociology and the social sciences. Christian Papilloud analyzes the c...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction. Sociology through Relation and Relational Sociology
• 2. Solidarity. Emile Durkheim, Gaston Richard, and Social Cohesion
• 3. Contact. Gaston Richard and Marcel Mauss on Sacrifice and Magic
• 4. Position. Marcel Mauss and Pierre Bourdieu on Gift, Interest, and the Mobilisation of Actors
• 5. Mediations. Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour on Objects, Institution, and Legitimisation
• 6. Reciprocity. Bruno Latour and Emile Durkheim on Reciprocity and Control
• 7. Conclusion. The Prospect of a Sociological Theory through Relation.