Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in Sociology - 9781803828282

Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in SociologyIntroducing Disjointed Fluidity\nAuthor(s): Jacqueline Joslyn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781803828282, 978-1803828282\nSynopsis\nSociologists have not neglected the study of relationships, but there remains no central definition of what a relationship is. Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in Sociology offers a definition of relationships that supports a conceptual tool and visualization technique for analyzing relational processes that are otherwise difficult to model using standard ethnographic and social network analysis techniques.\n\nGrounded in the work of social psychologists and relational sociologists and built on the premise that relationships are both remembered and imagined, Joslyn introduces disjointed fluidity: a new concept which maintains that relationships are molded by a flow of changing circumstan.