Vol 9, No 1, 2010 pp. 139-148
UDC 316.2
RELATIONALISM IN SOCIOLOGY: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ELABORATIONS
Charalambos Tsekeris
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Psychology
Athens, Greece
Email: tsekeris@gmail.com
Relationalism, as opposed to substantialism and as a critique of the various essentialist and reificatory ways of doing science, has been always very pervasive in classical, modern and postmodern sociological thought. The principal aim of this paper is to investigate, define and demonstrate this profound pervasiveness with reference to specific influential epistemic issues and dilemmas in contemporary social/sociological theory and methodology. It thus comprehensively provides a critical overview of the relationalist mode of thinking about the crucial notions of performativity, reflexivity and the self, as well as about social network research, which is at the very heart of American sociology.
Key words: relational sociology, epistemology, social networks, methodology, reflexivity, performativity, social research.
RELACIONIZAM U SOCIOLOGIJI: TEORETSKA I METODOLOŠKA DOSTIGNUĆA
Relacionizam, kao suprotnost supstancijalizmu i kao jedinstvena kritika esencijalizma u nauci, oduvek je bio složena pojava u klasičnoj, modernoj i postmodernoj sociološkoj misli. Osnovni cilj ovog rada je da istražuje, defineše i odredi složenost s osvrtom na odredjene uticaje i dileme u savremenoj društvenoj/sociološkoj teoriji i metodologiji. Rad tako predstavlja kritički pregled načina razmišljanja o relacionizmu i važnih pojmova izvršnosti, refleksivnosti i bića kao društvene mreže istraživanja, što je u suštini američke sociologije.
Ključne reči: sociologija relacionalizma, epistemologija, društvena mreža, metodologija, refleksivnost, izvršnost, društveno istraživanje
