John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action

A Sociological Reply on Rethinking Relations and Social Processes

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Engaging with several emerging and interconnected approaches in the social sciences, including pragmatism, system theory, processual thinking and relational thinking, this book leverages John Dewey and Arthur Bentley’s often misunderstood concept of trans-action to revisit and redefine our perceptions of social relations and social life.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-18
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
Antal sidor291
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030263829

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Christian Morgner’s (University of Leicester, UK) research interests include social justice, communication, social theory and development. He previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and was as a Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has also held visiting fellowships at Yale University, USA; University of Lucerne, Switzerland; University of Leuven, Belgium, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France.

Chapter 1: Reinventing Social Relations and Processes: John Dewey and Trans-actions.- Chapter 2: Causation is not everything: on constitution an dtrans-actional view of social science methodology.- Chapter 3: There is More to Groups of People than Just Groups and People: On Trans-Actional Analysis and Nationalism Studies.- Chapter 4: Trans-action, a processual and relational approach to organizations.- Chapter 5: Trans-actions in Music.- Chapter 6: The Emergence of Artistic Practice: From Self-Action to Trans-action.- Chapter 7: Updating Dewey's Transactional Theory of Action in Connection with Evolutionary Theory.- Chapter 8: From Inter-action to Trans-action: Ecologizing the Social Sciences.- Chapter 9: Human language as trans-actional autopoiesis.