Relationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079307 |
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| Authors | Charalambos Tsekeris (0000-0002-3304-5331), Konstantinos Koskinas (0000-0002-8193-2269) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosr090 |
| OpenAlex | W4233895585 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In epistemology, the relationalist mode of thinking often implies that “the scientific concepts no longer appear as imitations of thing‐like existences, but as symbols representing orders and functional links within reality” (Cassirer 1971: 3). In sociology, relationalism usually defines social human practices as ceaselessly reconstituted, reshaped, and reorganized by the ongoing flow of the very structure of their reciprocal relations, and not merely by their respective personalities or identities (Bourdieu & Wacquant 1992: 224–35). This subsequently resolves old theoretical dualisms and dichotomies, in so far as “the relation between the social agent and the world is not that between a subject (or a consciousness) and an object, but a relation of ontological complicity – or mutual possession” (Bourdieu & Wacquant 1992: 20
Complicity · Consciousness · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Object (grammar · Possession (linguistics · Reciprocal · Relation (database · Sociology · Subject (documents · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sociology and Education Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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