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Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 14683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practice theory.read more
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NGOs and organizational change : discourse, reporting, and learning
TL;DR: The making of NGOs: the relevance of Foucault and Bourdieu as discussed by the authors, and the role of information in the reproduction of NGO-funder relationships, as well as the challenges ahead: NGOfunder relations in a global future.
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The personal significance of home: habitus and the experience of receiving long-term home care.
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Re-contextualizing the notion of comfort
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Youth Transitions and Social Exclusion - developments in social capital theory
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The Dynamics of Political Embeddedness in China
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