Figurational sociology is a research tradition in which figurations of humans—evolving networks of interdependent humans—are the unit of investigation. Although more a methodological stance than a determinate school of practice, the tradition has one essential feature:
Concern for process, not state. Figurational sociology is also referred to as process sociology. This feature is an attempt to correct for an in-built language prejudice which tilts theory to reduce processes into static elements, separating, for example, human actors from their actions. Just as linguists rely on etymology to gain a rich understanding of a word's history, which may help to understand its later uses, figurational sociologists attempt to look at the process of a social feature's emergence and evolution to gain a fuller understanding of its function in the present.
Practitioners may be said to be inspired by the ideal that the usual humanities barrier between micro (e.g. psychological) and macro (e.g. state organization) is removed, and their causal links opened to examination. As a consequence, much of the work done in the name of this approach has examined the connection between changes in psychology and personhood, on the one hand, and changes in macro social structures on the other.
Norbert Elias is usually acknowledged as an early or primary practitioner, as a consequence of his ground-breaking 1939 work, The Civilizing Process.
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knowledge over time. He significantly shaped what is called process or figurationalsociology. Due to historical circumstances, Elias had long remained a marginal...
work of figurationalsociology. In 1998 the International Sociological Association listed the work as the seventh most important sociological book of...
over time. He significantly shaped what is called process sociology or figurationalsociology. Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) was an American sociologist...
Graham; Dunning, Eric (2015). Association Football: A Study in FigurationalSociology. London: Routledge. pp. 123–124. ISBN 978-1-13-882851-3. "The Football...
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Graham; Dunning, Eric (2015). Association Football: A Study in FigurationalSociology. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-82851-3. Farnsworth, Keith...
of the Global Order (2021) show his close connections with the 'figurationalsociology' school associated with Elias. Linklater wrote and edited several...
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Norbert Elias and the Analysis of History and Sport: Systematizing FigurationalSociology. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-21265-6. Oxford Dictionary of National...
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was the author of a number of books and articles on sport and the figurationalsociology of Norbert Elias. Although officially retired, Dunning remained...
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outstanding social scientists such as Max Weber, the founding father of modern sociology. Present faculty include Medicine Nobel Laureates Bert Sakmann (1991)...
throwing light on particular traits of the German sonderweg. Elias' figurationalsociology of the body became productive especially in the field of sport studies...
include the Sociology of knowledge (especially Alfred Schütz, Karl Mannheim, Thomas Luckmann and Peter L. Berger), and the FigurationalSociology of Norbert...
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