This handbook on relational sociology covers a rapidly growing approach in the social sciencesone 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??
Introduction: The Promise of the Relational Turn in Sociology
Part I: General Presentation of Relational Sociology
1. Relational Thinking in Sociology: Relevance, Concurrence and Dissonance
2. The Relation as Magical Operator: Overcoming the Divide between Relational and Processual Sociology
Part II: Approaches and Theories Associated with Relational Sociology:?
Pragmatism, Interactions, and Assemblages
3. Sociology of Infinitesimal Difference: Gabriels Tarde Heritage
4. Pluralism and Relationism in Social Theory: Lessons from the Tarde/Durkheim Debate
5. G.H. Mead and Relational Sociology: The Case of Concepts
6. Pragmatist Methodological Relationalism in Sociological Understanding of Evolving Human Culture
7. Gilles Deleuze and Relational Sociology
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