SOCI 210: Sociological perspectives

Agenda

  1. Administrative
  2. Course roadmap
  3. Relational sociology
  4. Network relations
  5. Fields and relationality

Administrative

Sythesis essay 2

  • Peer assessment due tonight at 11:59pm

Course roadmap

Still from the movie Goonies. Four adolescents, apparently in a cave of some sort, puzzle over a very old map.`

Course roadmap

  • Foundations
    Methods overview
    Classical (European) social theory
  • The individual in society (bottom-up)
    Ethnicity, race, and nationality
    Disability
    Gender and sexuality
    Class and culture

Last few weeks

  • Populations and publics (top-down)
    Inequality and stratification
    Demography
    Politics and economy
    Social movements
  • Social systems (middle-out)
    Interaction
    Institutional change
    Organizations and groups
    Media and technology

Course roadmap

  • Foundations
    Methods overview
    Classical (European) social theory
  • The individual in society (bottom-up)
    Ethnicity, race, and nationality
    Disability
    Gender and sexuality
    Class and culture
  • Populations and publics (top-down)
    Inequality and stratification
    Demography
    Politics and economy
    Social movements

Next few weeks

  • Social systems (middle-out)
    Interaction
    Institutional change
    Organizations and groups
    Media and technology

Relational sociology

Photo of a small group of ants forming a narrow tower that is about two ants wide and six ants tall. (Photo credit: Fahmi Bhs)

Relational sociology

Relational sociology

Relations are:

The relationships, contrasts, interactions, and affiliations that situate us among one another

Relational sociology

Relations 'all the way down'

  • Basic claim:
    Starting with relations we can explain both individual behavior and large-scale social forces
  • Addresses micro–macro divide by saying they are both result of relational processes and structures
  • Increasingly popular in social theory since 1990s
    Harrison White; Pierre Bourdieu
  • Especially popular among researchers of culture, taste, organizations, and institutional structure

Relational sociology

Relational sociology

Network relations

Network relations

Network relations

Network relations

Network relations

Fields and relationality

Fields and relationality

Fields and relationality

Fields and relationality

Fields and relationality

Fields and relationality

Next class

Next time

  • Gould (1991), Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871