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The role of Common Knowledge in achieving Collaboration across Practices
Working across practice boundaries on complex societal problems is now commonplace. Yet we know relatively little about what enables it to happen successfully. One analytic challenge for studies of inter-professional work is to understand what mediates collaboration across the boundaries … Continue reading
Social Poetics as a Relational Practice – Creating Resourceful Communities
Our overall interest here, is in those kinds of things that people can only do together that they cannot possibly do apart, in isolation from each other. Our interests resonate with the themes and topics expressed in the epigraph quotes … Continue reading
Posted in Bakhtin, Communities, Conversations, Dialogical, Relational, Social poetic
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Two-year-old Children differentiate Test Questions from Genuine Questions
Children are frequently confronted with so-called ‘ test questions’. While genuine questions are requests for missing information, test questions ask for information obviously already known to the questioner. In this study we explored whether two-year-old children respond differentially to one … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Infants, Questions, Relational
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Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence
Hunter-gatherers promoted, through cultural means, the playful side of their human nature and this made possible their egalitarian, nonautocratic, intensely cooperative ways of living. Hunter-gatherer bands, with their fluid membership, are likened to social-play groups, which people could freely join … Continue reading
Posted in Egalitarian, Equality, Hunter-gatherer, Play, Relational
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Cultures of Wellbeing – Method, Place, Policy
The authors challenge conventional psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing, presenting an emergent, more socially grounded approach: relational well being. Addressing the growing interest in happiness and wellbeing in public policy and practice, this edited collection combines critical conceptual … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Happiness, Relational, Relational sociology, Relational wellbeing, Wellbeing
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Relational Agency: Relational Sociology, Agency and Interaction
This article explores how the concept of agency in social theory changes when it is conceptualized as a relational rather than an individual phenomenon. It begins with a critique of the structure/agency debate, particularly of how this emerges in the … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Interaction, Relational, Relational agency, Relational sociology, Social relations
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The Relational Economy: Geographies of Knowing and Learning
How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what … Continue reading
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Self-relations in Social Relations
This article contributes to an ongoing theoretical effort to extend the insights of relational and network sociology into adjacent domains. We integrate Simmel’s late theory of the relational self into the formal analysis of social relations, generating a framework for … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Relational, Relational sociology, Self-relations
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