Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Biernacki (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp086 |
| OpenAlex | W4230554769 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Practice” is a rich if contested term, on which sociologists converge when they endeavor to portray human action in its cultural and institutional settings. Concepts of practice highlight the influence of taken‐for‐granted, pretheoretical assumptions on human conduct. Such covert assumptions embrace everything that is left out of economists' standard portrayals of intellectual calculations based on personal goals and known facts. For example, theorists of practice highlight the influence of bodily experience, practical know‐how, and institutionalized understandings of self and agency. Among the diverse theorists whose research has sustained this turn to practice are Garfinkel, Bourdieu, Foucault, Swidler, and Giddens
Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Covert · Epistemology · Practice theory · Sense of agency · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |