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Rainer Diaz-Bone (2017)Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 27:3–4, pp. 377–403.Name me something in sociology that isn’t structural. What isn’t?(White 2001, p. 5)Relational sociology is an invitation to challenge social phenomena, to think in terms of fluid social processes rather than isolated individuals or external and solid social structures.(Dépelteau &#38; Powell 2013a, p. xv)Abstract. Nowadays, relational sociology is represented by sociological approaches from the US and from France. These approaches share the aim of recombining the two “mega-paradigms” in the social sciences, structuralism and pragmatism. Relational sociology is thereby conceived as a project integrating the analysis of different forms of social practices and structures. The article aims to identify the specific properties of relational sociology beyond this common basis. Starting with the “New York school of relational sociology”, it is shown that this school can on the one side be regarded as a contemporary approach of relational sociology, having introduced innovative contributions, but also shows deficient developments on the other side. Thereupon “actor-network theory” and “economics of convention” in particular are presented as examples of the “new pragmatic sociologies” in France, which can also be regarded as modern versions of relational sociology. After characterizing and comparing these three versions of relational sociology, their metatheoretical and particularly methodological commonalities are presented. Finally, the article tries to define positively what constitutes relational sociology.Keywords: Relational Sociology, Structuralism, Pragmatism, Actor-network theory, Economics of convention, Harrison C. White, Bruno LatourLink to the review