New Directions in Relational Sociology, Volume One

Relations All the Way Up

Frédéric Vandenberghe, Christian Papilloud

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Palgrave Macmillan
14 October 2025

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Sociology; Social theory

Series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology

This edited volume contains contributions from scholars from all over the world that outline their version of relational sociology, situate it within the relational landscape and indicate how it might contribute to the development of a relational paradigm. This book’s aim is to open a variety of perspectives on relational sociology and to bring them into a fruitful, frictional dialogue. These chapters draw on the canonical authors of the relational turn, present relational perspectives in the neighbouring disciplines, integrate divergent approaches, solve important conceptual problems, articulate the relations between the core concepts of relational sociology, and apply the relational perspective to subfields of sociology. The first part of the book—""Sociology as Friendly Society”—is dedicated to François Dépelteau in memoriam and contains excerpts from an unfinished manuscript. The second section discusses the idea of a paradigm of relational sociology, balancing affirmative with more critical stances. The third part contains texts about social attachments, interactions and relations by authors wo adopt a Durkheimian perspective. The fourth part extends these concerns with primary sociability from the micro- to the macro-level of politics.

Edited by: Frédéric Vandenberghe, Christian Papilloud
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031939402
ISBN 10: 3031939409
Series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
Pages: 293
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1. Introduction: Processing Relational Sociology.- Chapter 2. Relational Sociology … with Love.- Chapter 3. Life as Process and Experience: The Contributions of a Pragmatic Relational Sociology.- Chapter 4. Hegel’s Historical and Relational Ontology.- Chapter 5. A Critical Realist Gaze to Relational Sociology as a Research Paradigm.- Chapter 6. Proposals for a Sociology that Pays Attention to Relations.- Chapter 7. Getting Out of the Relation and Into an Anthropology of Existents.- Chapter 8. Exploring Social Bonds. The Contribution of Social Attachment Theory.- Chapter 9. Our Generous Reciprocities. Outline of a Normative Anthropology of Interhuman Relations in the Key of Giving.- Chapter 10. “The Strength of the Bond”. From Grammar to Phenomenology and Back Again.- Chapter 11. A Sketch of a Pragmatist Account of the Relational Constitution and Enactment of Moral Agency.- Chapter 12. Relational approaches to festivities.

Frédéric Vandenberghe is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a Bucerius fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Germany. Christian Papilloud is Professor in Sociological Theory at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.