François Dépelteau is Professor of Sociology at Laurentian University, Canada. He is a specialist in sociological theory and relational sociology, and has published many books and articles in journals such as Sociological Theory and The International Review of Sociology.

Presents cutting-edge research in the understudied discipline of relational sociology

Builds on the work of theorists such as Mauss, Latour, Simmel, Deleuze, and Serres

Explores the discipline within the context of the so-called 'relational turn' of the late twentieth century

1. Relational Thinking in Sociology: Relevance, Concurrence and Dissonance.- 2. The Relation as Magical Operator: Overcoming the Divide between Relational and Processual Sociology.- 3. Sociology of Infinitesimal Difference: Gabriel's Tarde Heritage.- 4. Pluralism and Relationism in Social Theory: Lessons from the Tarde/Durkheim Debate.- 5. G.H. Mead and Relational Sociology: The Case of Concepts.- 6. Pragmatist Methodological Relationalism in Sociological Understanding of Evolving Human Culture.- 7. Gilles Deleuze and Relational Sociology.- 8. Triangular Relations: Michel Serres on Parasites, Angels, Quasi-objects, and the Virtual.- 9. Bruno Latour and Relational Sociology.- 10. Georg Simmel and Relational Sociology.- 11. Georg Simmel's Concepts of Forms of Sociation as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology.- 12. Switchings among Netdoms: The Relational Sociology of Harrison White.- 13. Relationalism and Social Networks.- 14. Is Niklas Luhmann a Relational Sociologist?.- 15.Charles Tilly and Relational Sociology.- 16. Michael Mann and Relational Sociology.- 17. Pierre Bourdieu and Relational Sociology.-18. Relational Sociology and Postcolonial Theory: Sketches of a 'Postcolonial Relationism'.- 19. 'To Understand the Shore, it is not Enough... to Pick up an Empty Shell...': Feminist Epistemologies, Ecological Thinking, and relational Ontologies.- 20. Beyond the Manifesto: Mustafa Emirbayer and Relational Sociology.- 21. Critical Realism as Relational Sociology.- 22. An Original Relational Sociology Grounded in Critical Realism.- 23. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Networks.- 24. Networks, Interactions and Relations.- 25. From the Concept of 'Trans-action' to a Process-Relational Sociology.-26. Relational Agency.- 27. Power and Relational Sociology.- 28. Relational Radicalization.- 29. The Relational Meaning-Making of Riots: Narrative Logic and Network Performance of the London 'Riots'.- 30. Music Sociology and Relational Perspective.- 31. RelationalSociology: Contributions to Understanding Residential Decision-Making in Later Life.- 32. Relations, Organizing, Leadership and Education.- 33. Marcel Mauss, the Gift and Relational Sociology.