Davide Ruggieri

The main aim of these pages is to explore the possibility of crossing two sociological and theoretical approaches: Relational Sociology and some recent addresses of the Critical Theory. Firstly, although the formula “relational sociology” may seem extremely familiar, it is useful to clarify what particular idea of social relation should be involved and assumed in this analytic frame. This clarification is due to the very complex, fragmented and pluralistic scenario of the last thirty years within the Relational sociology debate...

Some sociologists contributing to the foundations of relational sociology on the international stage have been recently remarking a kind of affinity between both notions of social relation and social life: hey particularly refer to the pioneering views of Georg Simmel, who is largely mentioned and concerned in the following paper. The interaction among social subjects generates unexpected and emergent forms which sociologist must detect and inquiry: the interactive feature of any relation refers to the “content” of the social relation itself...