ISBN:
9783030263805
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 291 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color)
Edition:
1st ed. 2020
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Springer eBooks
Series Statement:
Social Sciences
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Sociological Theory
;
Sociology
;
Social sciences—Philosophy
;
Sociology—Research
;
Pragmatism
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Engaging with three interconnected approaches in the social sciences (pragmatism, processual thinking, and relational thinking), this book leverages John Dewey and Arthur Bentley’s often misunderstood work Knowing and the Known and the concept of trans-action developed therein to revisit and redefine our perceptions of social relations and social life. As it moves us beyond essentialist notions of ‘self-action’ and ‘inter-action,’ trans-action allows us to perceive anew our understandings of ourselves, others, and the social fields, networks, organizations, and processes through which we make our way in the world. The contributors gathered here use these notions in a more specific sense, showing why and how social scientists and philosophers might use them to better understand our social life and social problems. As the first collective sociological attempt to apply the concept of trans-action to contemporary social issues, this volume is a key reference for the growing audience of relational and processual thinkers in the social sciences and beyond
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-26380-5
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