Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology

François Dépelteau is Professor of Sociology at Laurentian University, Canada. He is a specialist in sociological theory and relational sociology, and has published many books and articles in journals such as Sociological Theory and The International Review of Sociology.

• 1. Relational Thinking in Sociology: Relevance, Concurrence and Dissonance.- 2. The Relation as Magical Operator: Overcoming the Divide between Relational and Processual Sociology.- 3. Sociology of Infinitesimal Difference: Gabriel’s 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.- 8. Triangular Relations: Michel Serres on Parasites, Angels, Quasi-objects, and the Virtual.- 9. Bruno Latour and Relational Sociology.- 10. Georg Simmel and Relational Sociology.- 11. Georg Simmel’s Concepts of Forms of Sociation as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology.- 12. Switchings among Netdoms: The Relational Sociology of Harrison White.- 13. Relationalism and Social Networks.- 14. Is Niklas Luhmann a Relational Sociologist?.- 15.Charles Tilly and Relational Sociology.- 16. Michael Mann and Relational Sociology.- 17. Pierre Bourdieu and Relational Sociology.-18. Relational Sociology and Postcolonial Theory: Sketches of a ‘Postcolonial Relationism’.- 19. ‘To Understand the Shore, it is not Enough… to Pick up an Empty Shell…’: Feminist Epistemologies, Ecological Thinking, and relational Ontologies.- 20. Beyond the Manifesto: Mustafa Emirbayer and Relational Sociology.- 21. Critical Realism as Relational Sociology.- 22. An Original Relational Sociology Grounded in Critical Realism.- 23. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Networks.- 24. Networks, Interactions and Relations.- 25. From the Concept of ‘Trans-action’ to a Process-Relational Sociology.-26. Relational Agency.- 27. Power and Relational Sociology.- 28. Relational Radicalization.- 29. The Relational Meaning-Making of Riots: Narrative Logic and Network Performance of the London ‘Riots’.- 30. Music Sociology and Relational Perspective.- 31. RelationalSociology: Contributions to Understanding Residential Decision-Making in Later Life.- 32. Relations, Organizing, Leadership and Education.- 33. Marcel Mauss, the Gift and Relational Sociology.