Methodology of Relational Sociology

Elżbieta Hałas is Full Professor of Humanities and Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her fields of interest include: relational perspectives in social theory, cultural sociology, symbolic interactionism, social symbolism, politics of symbolization and cultural memory. Her research is focused on the relational, semiotic and pragmatic dimensions of contemporary cultural and social transformations. In 2016, she initiated international seminars on relational sociology in Poland.

• Chapter 1. The methodology of critical realist relational analysis: the research design and its underlying rules.- Chapter 2. The Grounds of Relational Explanation.- Chapter 3. Relational Understanding: Beyond the Interpretative and Normative Divide.- Chapter 4. Realism vs Relationism.- Chapter 5. Fields, Markets, Institutions and Networks.- Chapter 6. French Top Media Executives – The Sociology of a Segment of the Elite.- Chapter 7.The Methodological Rules of the Critical Realist Relational Sociology (CRRS): Some Examples.- Chapter 8. Florian Znaniecki’s Methodology for the Relational Paradigm. The Application of Analytic Induction to Nationalism Studies.- Chapter 9.Towards a relational pragmatics as a bridge between sociology and linguistics.- Chapter 10. Finger Pointing in Early Childhood. Interaction Analysis and the Communicative Construction of Social Relations.- Chapter 11.Towards a Relational Pragmatics as a Bridge Between Sociology and Linguistics.- Chapter 12. Beyondrelationism ? Relational Perspectives and George Herbert Mead.- Chapter 13. Normative Reciprocity, Relational Sociology, and the Critique of Forms of Social Life.