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John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action

A Sociological Reply on Rethinking Relations and Social Processes

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Editors:
  1. Christian Morgner

    1. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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  • Focuses on the highly promising but often sociologically misunderstood concept of trans-action, as established by John Dewey
  • Brings together thinking in sociology and philosophy to redefine our perceptions of social relations and social life
  • Contemporary empirical case studies demonstrate how trans-action, processual and relational thinking, and pragmatism can be used in the social sciences

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology (PSRS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Reinventing Social Relations and Processes: John Dewey and Trans-Actions

    • Christian Morgner
    Pages 1-30

  3. Causation Is Not Everything: On Constitution and Trans-Actional View of Social Science Methodology

    • Peeter Selg
    Pages 31-53

  4. There Is More to Groups of People Than Just Groups and People: On Trans-Actional Analysis and Nationalism Studies

    • Peeter Selg, Piret Peiker
    Pages 55-81

  5. Trans-Action: A Processual and Relational Approach to Organizations

    • Philippe Lorino
    Pages 83-109

  6. Trans-Actions in Music

    • Mark Rimmer
    Pages 111-141

  7. The Emergence of Artistic Practice: From Self-Action to Trans-Action

    • Christian Morgner
    Pages 143-194

  8. Updating Dewey’s Transactional Theory of Action in Connection with Evolutionary Theory

    • Osmo Kivinen, Tero Piiroinen
    Pages 195-222

  9. From Inter-Action to Trans-Action: Ecologizing the Social Sciences

    • Louis Quéré
    Pages 223-252

  10. Human Language as Trans-Actional Autopoiesis

    • Mónica J. Sánchez-Flores
    Pages 253-283

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 285-291
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About this book

Engaging with several emerging and interconnected approaches in the social sciences, including pragmatism, system theory, processual thinking and relational thinking, this book leverages John Dewey and Arthur Bentley’s often misunderstood concept of trans-action to revisit and redefine our perceptions of social relations and social life. The contributors gathered here use trans-action in a more specific sense, showing why and how social scientists and philosophers might use the concept to better understand our social life and social problems. As the first collective sociological attempt to apply the concept of trans-action to contemporary social issues, this volume is a key reference for the growing audience of relational and processual thinkers in the social sciences and beyond.



                  
                         


Reviews

“This is the best book yet published on Dewey and Bentley’s important concept of trans-action, bringing together a range of authors who not only explain and develop the concept, but also apply it in the analysis of social networks, organizations, institutions, and activities. As trans-action has become a vital concept in the development of processual and relational sociology, this book will be essential reading for academics and students working in the social sciences today. It is also a fitting tribute to the life and work of François Dépelteau, who did so much to develop relational sociology as a field of study.” (Ian Burkitt, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Criminology, University of Bradford, UK)

“This impressive collection of essays gives us an eagerly awaited key contribution to the processual turn in the social sciences: its authors thoroughly discuss the concept of trans-action, and they put it to good use in diverse fields of social inquiry. Indispensable reading for relational sociologists and for everybody interested in the processual nature of the social world.” (Jan Fuhse, Replacement Professor of Sociology, University of Passau, Germany)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Christian Morgner

About the editor

Christian Morgner’s (University of Leicester, UK) research interests include social justice, communication, social theory and development. He previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and was as a Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has also held visiting fellowships at Yale University, USA; University of Lucerne, Switzerland; University of Leuven, Belgium, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France.


           

                      

              

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action

  • Book Subtitle: A Sociological Reply on Rethinking Relations and Social Processes

  • Editors: Christian Morgner

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26380-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26379-9Published: 18 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26382-9Published: 18 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26380-5Published: 09 October 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4110

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4129

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 291

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociological Theory, Social Theory, Research Methodology, Pragmatism

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