Relational Persons and Relational Processes: Developing the Notion of Relationality for the Sociology of Personal Life
Relational Persons and Relational Processes: Developing the Notion of Relationality for the Sociology of Personal Life
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DOI:
10.1177/0038038514561295
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发表时间:
2016-02-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Ketokivi, Kaisa
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作者:
Roseneil, Sasha;Ketokivi, Kaisa
The concept of relationality has recently found widespread favour in British sociology, particularly in the emergent sub-field of the sociology of personal life, which is characterized by its attachment to the concept. However, this relational turn' is under-theorized and pays little attention to the substantial history of relational thinking across the human sciences. This article argues that the notion of relationality in the sociology of personal life might be strengthened by an exploration of the conceptualization of the relational person and relational processes offered by three bodies of literature: the process-oriented thinking of American pragmatism, specifically of Mead and Emirbayer; the figurational sociology of Elias; and psychoanalysis, particularly the object relations tradition, contemporary relational psychoanalysis, and Ettinger's notion of transubjectivity. The article attends particularly to the processes involved in the individuality, agentic reflexivity and affective dimensions of the relational person.