Practice Then and Now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6190820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Turner (0000-0002-7538-0533, Department of Philosophy Arts & Sciences, FAO 226 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 111-125 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1210-3055 • E-ISSN: 1337-401X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/v10023-007-0011-z |
| OpenAlex | W2065142262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 17 |
Practice Then and Now"Practice theory" has a long history in philosophy, under various names, but current practice theory is a response to failures of projects of modernity or enlightenment which attempt to reduce science or politics to formulae. Heidegger, Oakeshott, and MacIntyre are each examples of philosophers who turned to practice conceptions. Foucault and Bourdieu made similar turns. Practice accounts come in different forms: some emphasize skill-like individual accomplishments, others emphasize the social character or presupposition-like character of the tacit conditions of activities. The Social Theory of Practices problematized the idea of sameness, the idea that participants in an activity had the same tacit possessions, which undermined the idea that practices were collective objects in which individuals participated. Later critics, such as Schatzki and Rouse, emphasized the normative coherence and character of practice, which has a collective aspect. Pickering and others suggested a notion of practices that was de-mentalized and focused on the objects that were part of the practical activity, which provided for the continuity and sociality of practice without collectivizing its mental content. The discovery of mirror neurons suggested a non-collective mode of transmission of practices. The implications of these developments can be seen in connection with ethics, where the conflict between the ethical and the practical can be understood in terms of the intrinsic conflict between the need to behave successfully and our learned ethical intuitions
Enlightenment · Epistemology · Normative · Politics · Practice theory · Presupposition · Social practice · Sociality · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy
Medien als soziotechnische Arrangements
International Pecking Orders
Practice Theories
Städte auf dem Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit
Foundations of Public Law
Social Practices
The search for dialogue as a hindrance to understanding
Update of leadership-as-practice “practice theory”
Practice theory and conservative thought
Inclusion of heritage language learners on the autism spectrum
Moral re-turns in geography. Chora
After taste
Mirror Neurons and Practices
Evolutionary Psychology, Complex Systems, and Social Theory
From Habituality to Change
Reclaiming Agency, Recovering Change? An Exploration of the Practice Theory of Theodore Schatzki
Habit and the explanation of action
Seasonal climate change and the indoor city worker
How Older People Relate to the Private Winter Warmth Practices of Their Peers and Why We Should Be Interested
Social Practices
A Short History of Ethics
The Tacit Dimension
Personal Knowledge
"Rationalism in Politics" (1947)
Must We Mean What We Say?
"Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method
"Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method
The Site of the Social
The Rules of Sociological Method
Time and a Theory of the Visible
The social theory of practices
Sociology and Psychology
The Mangle of Practice
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |