02438nam 22004213a 450 991083182880332120250203232649.097810003827231000382729https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146698(CKB)4950000000290211(BIP)078413407(ScCtBLL)473d2238-840d-496d-9e90-26cf6a100f39(EXLCZ)99495000000029021120250203i20212021 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTranscending Modernity with Relational ThinkingPierpaolo Donati[s.l.] :Routledge,2021.1 online resource (252 p.) illRoutledge Advances in SociologyThis book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an aftermodern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation of dichotomous forces in society and to examine the emergence of a "third" in the morphogenetic processes. Through a realist and critical relational sociology, which allows for the fact that human beings are both internal and external to social relations, and therefore to society, the author shows how we are moving towards a new, trans-modern society - one that calls into question the guiding ideas of Western modernity, such as the notion of linear progression, that science and technology are the decisive factors of human development, and that culture can entirely supplant nature. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, economists, political scientists, and social philosophers with interests in relational thought, critical realism, and social transformation.Routledge Advances in SociologySocial Science / SociologybisacshSocial sciencesSocial Science / SociologySocial sciences.302Donati Pierpaolo39910ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910831828803321Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking2995962UNINA