The Relational Gaze on a Changing Society
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Part I The Relational Gaze: Theoretical Studies
- The Sociological Gaze: When, How and Why Is It Relational?
- Interaction, Transaction and Relation. Ideas for a Closer Comparison of Emirbayer and Donati’s Relational Outlooks
- The Sociology of Guy Bajoit: between a Relational Paradigm and Relational Individualism
- Relational Aspects of the Third Sector Today
- Discovering the Relational Relevance of Reciprocity
- The Emergence of Crowdsourcing as a Relational Work
- Part II The Relational Gaze: Research Studies
- A Multigenerational Point of View: The Contribution of Relational Sociology
- Analysing Family Social Capital in a Relational Perspective: A Pilot Research in Northern Italy
- The Operationalisation of Functional Intergenerational Solidarity in the Family: Findings from Research Carried Out in Spain
- Social Capital and Familiness in Primary Childcare Services: A Study of Families with Children 0–3 Years Old in Italy
- Relations, Trust, Actualisation: Postmodern Short Circuits
- The Crisis of European Citizenship in a Relational Perspective
- Part III The Relational Gaze on Social Work
- The Relational Social Work: Principles and Methods
- Foster Care as a Relational Practice. A Quantitative Research on Case Files of the Juvenile Court of Milan
- The Participatory Research Approach. Suggestions by the Relational Social Work Method
- Decision-Making in Child Protection. The Family Group Conferences Model
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Contributors
Pierpaolo Donati
The Sociological Gaze: When, How and Why Is It Relational?
1 The thematizing of the human gaze
When we and others observe a painting, a sculpture, a view, the scene of an accident or a televised event, the object remains the same for everyone. In other words, everyone is observing the same reality; however, each of us describes it and sees it in a different way. Each of us perceives and focuses on different aspects of observed reality, depending on the individual sensitivity each of us possesses. This happens even when we are faced with numerical or other purely quantitative entities. Everyone “sees” the same numbers or quantities, but each “looks at” them in different ways.
For example, if we look at the figures for the increasing number of children born out of wedlock in various countries, the figures themselves are the same for all observers, but the way they are perceived will invariably differ. Everyone will see something different: some will see this phenomenon as a sign of a crisis of the family as an institution; others will see it as a sign of the greater freedom of parents, while some will perceive it as an indication of a changing civilisation, and so on and so forth. So why is it that each observer sees things differently, and offers different explanations and accounts for the very same observed things?
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- Pages
- 316
- Publication Year
- 2019
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631792964
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631814758
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631814765
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631814772
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16648
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2019 (December)
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- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. 316 pp., 11 fig. b/w, 27 tables.
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