Relationalism and Social Networks

Erikson, Emily

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_13

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“…Social relationships become a unit of analysis in examinations of social realities and are expressed in terms of the networks of such relations (Crossley, 2011, p. 1). If social reality can be best understood by understanding individuals’ actions, it would be appropriate to focus on the relationships where such actions are performed (Erikson, 2018). Though this theory is limited to “human beings becoming co-producers of social processes”, it enables us “to study some key features of social life more efficiently than any other approaches in social sciences” (Depelteau and Powell, 2013, p. x).…”

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Are business friends social too? Understanding information sharing in an Indian dairy cooperative through a relational sociology lens

Singh

Christie

2022

IJSSP

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PurposeExtant literature indicates that people use existing social networks for various collective activities as there is a cost involved to create and maintain separate networks for different activities. The authors build on the relational sociology framework and test this assertion in by examining a dairy cooperative society, which is a community organization. We hypothesize that the cooperative members are likely to use existing social networks to operationalize their cooperative (dairy-related matters) and other social and personal relations. This study tests the hypothesis by studying information sharing relations among the dairy cooperative members in two different social networks: the dairy information network and social information network.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses social network analysis to analyze relational data.FindingsThe study finds that the members of the dairy cooperative maintain both information sharing networks separately and that each network has different control and efficiency mechanisms.Originality/valueThe findings contradict the assertions of existing literature and establish that people ensure their business relations remain separated from their social relations to avoid the possibility of social conflicts affecting their business activities.

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Are business friends social too? Understanding information sharing in an Indian dairy cooperative through a relational sociology lens

Singh

Christie

2022

IJSSP

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“…However, social media studies have not yet considered the performative effects of the third party as audience-turned-participant. Erikson (2018) argued that since an active dyad is inherently a close and intimate connection, the shift to a triad decreases the intimacy of the relationship and creates a sense of belonging to a novel social organization – a group. I suggest instead that through the performance of public intimacy the position of the third party actually serves to reproduce a sense of intimacy associated with the close relationship, as I elaborate below.…”

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“…In this way triads of public intimacy may extend to wider circles through the thrill of teasing and seduction. They acquire a participatory quality and achieve collective significance, not only because the dyad transforms into a different social organization as suggested by the Simmelian approach (Erikson, 2018) but because solidary feelings of exclusivity and familiarity characteristic of close friendships are retained, even as they are communicated to the mass audience.…”

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Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party

Kaplan

2021

Media, Culture & Society

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This study presents a novel analysis of social network sites as a staged performance of interpersonal ties in front of a third party, here defined as public intimacy. This concept moves away from the current focus on the presentation of self in social media to the performance of relationships. Users of social media are compared to an interactive audience in a round theater. As inner circle network members display their exclusive ties in front of ther users they may also tease them into joining the conversation. Building on studies of Simmelian ties, interactive exchange, and phatic communication the study presents six characteristics of public intimacy along with brief examples drawn from users’ experiences on Facebook and Twitter. It is concluded that by mediating the shift from dyad to triad and from triad to mass community social media do not necessarily entail a reduction in intimacy but rather a concretization of social relations. The recursive relationship between interpersonal ties and mass solidarity is sustained and reaffirmed thanks to triadic interactions of public intimacy.

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“…Nevertheless, even with the emphasis that some forms of social network analysis lay on the dynamic, rather than static, character of networks (see e.g. Crossley, 2011;Erikson, 2018), network thinking is not fully capable of incorporating process and time into its view of relations. It is ill-equipped to attend to the mutual becoming and ongoing formation of entangled beings.…”

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Relations Along, not Between: Incorporating Becoming into Relational Sociology (via Life-Philosophy)

Pyyhtinen¹

2021

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The article advances a type of relational sociology that is sensitive to the continually ongoing formation of beings and relations over the course of time. While the dynamic and fluid character of relations has been stressed by other relational scholars as well, the article suggests by drawing from the work of Simmel and anthropologist Tim Ingold that to attend to the coming-into-being and change of beings and relations, we need to alter the very grammar of considering relations: instead of fathoming them as connections between entities, we had better examine them as lines of life along which things become, act, change, move, and grow. This is to interweave the concept of relations with the notion of life, which the article conceptualizes by turning to the life-philosophy of Simmel. Instead of regarding life as encapsulated inside living organisms, Simmel considers it as form-giving immanent in the world’s incessant processes of becoming.

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Relationalism and Social Networks

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Are business friends social too? Understanding information sharing in an Indian dairy cooperative through a relational sociology lens

Are business friends social too? Understanding information sharing in an Indian dairy cooperative through a relational sociology lens

Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party

Relations Along, not Between: Incorporating Becoming into Relational Sociology (via Life-Philosophy)

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