Pierpaolo Donati is Professor of Advanced Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy. Past-President of the Italian Sociological Association, he is known as the founder of an original “relational sociology” or “relational theory of society” and has published more than 650 works, including 90 books.
He is the director of Pros-Ti, a study and research center focused on relational sociology.
Recent Publications
Donati, P. (2021). Impact of AI/Robotics on Human Relations: Co-evolution Through Hybridisation, Joachim von Braun et al. (eds.), Robotics, AI and Humanity; Science, Ethics, and policy, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 213-227.
Donati, P. (2020). Fluxes and Structures: Which Relational Gaze? A Comparison between Relational Sociologies, in “Polish Sociological Review”, 210(2), pp. 179-197.
Donati, P. (2019). ‘Discovering the Relational Goods: Their Nature, Genesis and Effects.’ International Review of Sociology, 29(2): 238-259. Doi 10.1080/03906701.2019.1619952
Donati, P. (2019). ‘New Insights into the Relational Subject: Connecting Personal and Collective Identity.’ In Gonzales, A.M (ed.). Social Bonds and Personal Identity. Pamplona: Eunsa (in print).
Donati, P. (2019). ‘The Enigma of Relation and the Theological Matrix of Society.’ pp. 3-37 in P. Donati, A. Malo, G. Maspero (eds.), Social Science, Philosophy and Theology in Dialogue: A Relational Perspective. Abingdon: Routledge.
Donati, P. (2019). ‘Impact of robotics/AI on human relations.’ In the Proceedings of the conference “AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy”, PAS-PASS, Vatican City, 16-17 May.
Donati, P. (2019). Sociología relacional de lo humano, Eunsa, Pamplona.
Donati, P. (2019). Пьерпаоло Донати. Реляционная теория общества: Социальная жизнь с точки зрения критического реализма. Москва: Москва Издательство ПСТГУ, 2019 (Relational theory of society: social life from a perspective of critical realism. Moscow: Moscow Publishing PSTGU).
Donati, P. (2019). Реляционная теория общества: социальная жизнь с точки зрения критического реализма, Москва: Москва Издательство ПСТГУ, 2019 (Relational theory of society: social life in terms of critical realism, Moscow: Moscow: Moscow Publishing PSTGU).
Donati, P. (ed.). (2018). Towards a Participatory Society: New Roads to Social and Cultural Integration.’ The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Acta 21, Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
Donati, P. (2018). ‘How Can Interculturality Achieve Social Integration?.’ pp. 592-624 in Donati, P. (ed.), Towards a Participatory Society: New Roads to Social and Cultural Integration.’ The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Acta 21, Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
Donati, P. (2018). ‘An Original Relational Sociology Grounded in Critical Realism.’ pp. 431-456 in Dépelteau, F. (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Donati, P. (2018). Chinese edition: 答复: Relational Sociology 格致出版社, Shanghai: Truth and Wisdom Press.
Hałas, E. & Donati, P. (eds.). (2017). The Relational Turn in Sociology: Implications for the Study of Society, Culture
and Persons, special issue of “Stan Rzeczy” [State of Affairs], University of Warsaw.
Donati, P. (2016). On the Social Morphogenesis of Citizenship: A Relational Approach, in “SMP. Societàmutamentopolitica”, 7 (13), pp. 41-66.
Donati, P. & Martignani, L. (eds.). (2015). Towards a New Local Welfare. Best Practices and Networks of Social Inclusion,
Bononia University Press.
Donati, P. & Archer, M.S. (2015). The Relational Subject, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Donati, P. (2015). Manifesto for a critical realist relational sociology, in “International Review of Sociology/Revue
Internationale de Sociologie, 25 (1), pp. 86-109.
Donati, P. (2014). Relational Sociology, Critical Realism and Social Morphogenesis, in “Sociologia e Politiche Sociali”, 17 (1), pp. 9-26.
Centre for Social Ontology 