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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the question of relationality. Despite the numerous motifs introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer’s concept, we notice that some often reappear. What frequently appears is the concept of agency, closely related to the matter of the subject’s reflexivity. We also include papers that refer to methodological dilemmas. However, all collected texts directly consider the essence of the concept of the human person and society in reaction to the ontology of the person proposed by Archer. The common thread and horizon of these elaborations is Archer’s concept and Pierpaolo Donati’s relational sociology. Thus, this publication seeks to gain broader public and open new research perspectives in sociology.
Table of ContentsPreface
Margaret S. Archer
The Morphogenesis of Personal Identity: Who We Are Is What We
Care About
Pierpaolo Donati
The Relational Constitution of Society and the Human Person: an
Introduction to Relational Sociology
Fr. Artur Wysocki
The Transcendence of the Person in Forgiveness: The Perspective of
Relational Sociology
Krzysztof Wielecki
Concerns, Horror and Instrumental Rationality
Arkadiusz Jabłoński
The Category of Time in Morphogenetic Interpretation of Social and
Cultural Change
Klaudia Śledzińska
The Barriers Impeding the Processes toward Conscious Citizenship: A
Deficit in Power Relations within Public Space
Silvia Cataldi
On a Giant’s Shoulders: Three Merits of Archer’s Contribution
Marek Rembierz
Hope—Humanity—Society: Questions Concerning Hope and the
Inspirations of Critical Realism
Marcin Zarzecki
Methodological and Theoretical Implications of Margaret S. Archer’s
Critical Realism for the Concept of Social Constructionism in
Interpretive Sociology
Joanna Leszczyńska
Electric Current Sociology Proposal Inspired by the Thought of
Margaret S. Archer: An Overview
Monika Bukowska
The Scientific Experience of Margaret S. Archer
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