ABSTRACT

Relational sociology is a way of observing and thinking which starts from the assumption that the problems of society are generated by social relations and aims to understand, and if possible, ‘solve’ them, not purely on the basis of individual or voluntary actions, nor conversely, purely through collective or structural ones, but via new social relations and a new articulation of these relations. No-one can escape the complexity entailed in and by this approach, which aspires to advance a theory and method appropriate to a more complex order of reality.2