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Category Archives: Relationships
Theorizing social networks: relational sociology
This paper offers an overview of relational sociology as developed by and around Harrison White. Relational sociology provides a substantial account of social networks, conceptualizing them as real social structures interwoven with meaning. Forms of meaning connected to network configurations … Continue reading
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To make a topic from one of anthropology’s principal means and objects of study, investigating relations through relations, is offered in the spirit of reflexive enquiry. The entry is not confined to anthropological works, touching briefly on certain philosophical dimensions … Continue reading
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Relational Sociology: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences
‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s … Continue reading
Posted in Relational agency, Relational research, Relational sociology, Relationality, Relationships
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The Social Poetics of Relationally Engaged Research
… it is the poet who plays with language, with interpretation, with imagery. It is in juxtaposition to this portrait of the poet, the poem, the poetic that I embrace the move toward a social poetic. Here we move rapidly … Continue reading
Constructing Resourceful or Mutually Enabling Communities
The whole idea of being a “participant,” of being an involved actor as distinct from being an “external observer” standing over against or apart from what one is learning about or researching into, is crucial in everything that follows below. … Continue reading
Learning as Relational: Intersubjectivity and Pedagogy in Higher Education
The decision to make the student population financially responsible for their own university education has major implications for the future of higher education provision. Chief among these implications will undoubtedly be a much stronger emphasis on the student experience, not … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Relational learning, Relationships, Student, Teachers
Tagged higher education, pedagogy, relational learning, relationships, student, teachers
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Respect as an Engine for New Ideas: Respectful Engagement, Relational Learning and Creativity
In this article, we suggest that relationships more directly influence the creative process by enhancing individuals’ capacities and motivating them to engage with others. In particular, if individuals interrelate in ways that foster respect, relationships serve as means for endogenously … Continue reading
Posted in Relational learning, Relational sociology, Relationships, Respectful engagement
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More than Cool Reason: “Withness-thinking” or “Systemic thinking” and Thinking about Systems
Many of our difficulties in our practical lives are not of the form of “problems” that we can solve by reasoning; nor are they are “empirical problems” that we can solve by discovering something currently unknown to us by the … Continue reading
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.This is good news for those … Continue reading
Social Learning towards a Sustainable World – Principles, perspectives, and praxis
Creating communities and societies that are ecologically sustainable is the great challenge of our time. What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth, development, market share, or competitive advantage, but the entire web of life on which … Continue reading
Posted in Learning communities, Relationships, Social learning, Social network, Social relationships, Sustainable community
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