Drawing on Bourdieu's field theory and Latour's actor network theory, Go illustrates how postcolonial
relationism draws attention to the relations between groups that have been thought to be distinct and independent of one another.
In his "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology," which is one of the founding documents of the academic movement of RS, Mustafa Emirbayer, presents a stark choice: "The key question confronting sociologists in the present day is not 'material versus ideal', 'structure versus agency', 'individual versus society', or any of the other dualisms so often noted; rather is the choice between substantialism and
relationism" (Emirbayer 1997:282).
With China's traditional cultural emphasis on
relationism, harmonious social relationships are encouraged (Wong, Wong, & Wong, 2010), and discord and disagreement are discouraged.
Thus, instead of relativism, Latour advocates for a '
relationism' through which institutional values can be tested and honed.
"All-Under-Heaven and Methodological
Relationism: An Old Story and New World Peace", Fred Dallmayr ve Zhao Tingyang (der.), Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives, The University Press of Kentucy, 2012, s.46-66.
Ho, D.Y.F., (1998), "Interpersonal relationships and relationship dominance: An analysis based on methodological
relationism", Asian Journal of Social Psychology, vol.
Zhao, Tingyang, "All-under-heaven and methodical
relationism: An old story and new world peace" en Fred Dallmayr y Tingyang Zhao, Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, Estados Unidos, 2012.
To begin the construction of a theory to explain how perception can be used as evidence for belief, Kassar covers conceptualism,
relationism, relational conceptualism, and relational conceptualism and empirical science.