EAN: 9783319879437

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN RELATIONAL SOCIOLOGY SOCI...

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 cardinal steps of this debate  which historically relate to the concept
of solidarity  expressing an ideal of social cohesion through relationships between personal
and non-personal actors. In social theory  it is well-known that solidarity refers to Emile
Durkheim. But little is known about the controversies generated in relation to the purpose of a
relational perspective in sociology. Papilloud reconstructs and follows the most important of
these controversies in a comparative perspective  beginning with Emile Durkheim and Gaston
Richard on solidarity  Richard and Marcel Mauss on sacrifice and magic  Mauss and Pierre
Bourdieu on gift and social positions  Bourdieu and Bruno Latour on the objects of exchanges
and institutions  and Latour and Durkheim on reciprocity and control. These comparisons give
shape to a theoretical framework for a 'sociology through relation.

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