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Manifesto for a relational sociology

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dc.contributor.authorEmirbayer, M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:36Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:36Zen
dc.date.issued1997en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractIn this article, Emirbayer launches a scathing assault on the new "substantialist" and overly quantitative approach to modern sociology. Specifically, Emirbayer discredits variable centered and rational choice models for attempting to deify social relations rather than to fully appreciate the rich context of time and space in the agency of actors within a social network. Arguing that sociology has moved away from its basic premise that human relations are dynamic in that actors significantly reform one another through their relations, Emirbayer advocates for language of "transaction" instead of "interaction" to restore culture and context to the science of sociology.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3468en
dc.identifier.citationThe American Journal of Sociology 103(2): 281-317en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1086/231209en
dc.identifier.issn0002-9602en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67580en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherChicago, IL: The University of Chicago Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectRelational sociologyen
dc.subjectTransactionsen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectAgencyen
dc.titleManifesto for a relational sociologyen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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