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A sociological imagination for a clumsy world: François Dépelteau’s relational sociology

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dc.creator Selg, Peeter
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-20T19:43:55Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-20T19:43:55Z
dc.identifier http://raco.cat/index.php/Digithum/article/view/n26-selg
dc.identifier 10.7238/d.v0i26.383829
dc.identifier.uri https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/220841
dc.description In this paper I introduce the special section on the work of the late Francois Dépelteau (1963-2018), by analyzing an essential tension within the relational sociology which I call the division between “clumsy” and “elegant” relationalism. “Clumsy” relationalism as exemplified most uncompromisingly by Francois is in a way an extreme perspective on social research, prescribing a certain “obsession” with change and unfolding of reality, rather than its stability or firm foundation. As Francois has put it in one of his last published works: “Everything is changing all the time, including ourselves. This is hard to accept since we are looking for some sort of stability often to reassure ourselves.” I ask why should we accept this perspective rather than continue with reassuring ourselves. I also point out that both “elegant” and “clumsy” relationalisms are useful for social research, but that the latter is increasingly pertinent for contemporary world inhabited by “wicked” social problems that have no elegant solutions or even definitions. I also analyse in more detail Francois’s critique of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology that is the most eminent example of “elegant” relationalism, and the furthering of “clumsy” relational sociology in the contributions to the special section by Nick Crossley and Jean-Sebastien Guy. en-US
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dc.publisher Universitat Oberta de Catalunya en-US
dc.publisher Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) en-US
dc.relation http://raco.cat/index.php/Digithum/article/view/n26-selg/482666
dc.relation http://raco.cat/index.php/Digithum/article/view/n26-selg/482976
dc.rights Copyright (c) 2021 Peeter Selg en-US
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 en-US
dc.source Digithum; Núm. 26 (2020): Número especial: L'obra de François Dépélteau (Editor: Prof. Peeter Selg) ca-ES
dc.source Digithum; Núm. 26 (2020): Número especial: La obra de François Dépélteau (Editor: Prof. Peeter Selg) es-ES
dc.source Digithum; No 26 (2020): Special Issue: The work of François Dépélteau (Guest Editor: Prof. Peeter Selg) en-US
dc.source 1575-2275
dc.subject Francois Dépelteau en-US
dc.subject Relational Sociology en-US
dc.subject social processes en-US
dc.subject Pierre Bourdieu en-US
dc.title A sociological imagination for a clumsy world: François Dépelteau’s relational sociology en-US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type Article revisat per experts ca-ES
dc.type Peer-reviewed article en-US
dc.type Artículo revisado por pares es-ES


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