John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action

A Sociological Reply on Rethinking Relations and Social Processes

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 291 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-26379-9 (ISBN)

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Engaging with several emerging and interconnected approaches in the social sciences, including pragmatism, system theory, processual thinking and relational thinking, this book leverages John Dewey and Arthur Bentley's often misunderstood concept of trans-action to revisit and redefine our perceptions of social relations and social life. The contributors gathered here use trans-action in a more specific sense, showing why and how social scientists and philosophers might use the concept to better understand our social life and social problems. As the first collective sociological attempt to apply the concept of trans-action to contemporary social issues, this volume is a key reference for the growing audience of relational and processual thinkers in the social sciences and beyond.

Christian Morgner's (University of Leicester, UK) research interests include social justice, communication, social theory and development. He previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and was as a Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has also held visiting fellowships at Yale University, USA; University of Lucerne, Switzerland; University of Leuven, Belgium, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France.

Chapter 1: Reinventing Social Relations and Processes: John Dewey and Trans-actions.- Chapter 2: Causation is not everything: on constitution an dtrans-actional view of social science methodology.- Chapter 3: There is More to Groups of People than Just Groups and People: On Trans-Actional Analysis and Nationalism Studies.- Chapter 4: Trans-action, a processual and relational approach to organizations.- Chapter 5: Trans-actions in Music.- Chapter 6: The Emergence of Artistic Practice: From Self-Action to Trans-action.- Chapter 7: Updating Dewey's Transactional Theory of Action in Connection with Evolutionary Theory.- Chapter 8: From Inter-action to Trans-action: Ecologizing the Social Sciences.- Chapter 9: Human language as trans-actional autopoiesis.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
Zusatzinfo	XII, 291 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	inter-action • John Dewey • object of sociology • Pragmatism • processual thinking • Relational Thinking • self-action • social processes • trans-action
ISBN-10	3-030-26379-7 / 3030263797
ISBN-13	978-3-030-26379-9 / 9783030263799
Zustand	Neuware