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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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Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers
TL;DR: The authors examines elite business careers through the dual lens of sensemaking and storytelling as recounted in life-history interviews with business leaders, and explores how they make sense of, narrativize and legitimate their experiences of building their careers within and beyond large organizations.
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“Hey, Those Shoes Are Out of Uniform”: African American Girls in an Elite High School and the Importance of Habitus
TL;DR: The authors examined how race and class influenced the lives of six African American high school seniors who attended a predominantly white, elite, independent secondary school and found that the interaction of that dominant habitus with the dissimilar individual habitus of the students resulted in a form of symbolic violence.
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A Bourdieusian Analysis of Class and Migration Habitus and the Individualizing Process
Caroline Oliver,Karen O'Reilly +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the phenomenon of lifestyle migration from Britain to Spain to interrogate the continued relevance of class in the era of individualizing modernity and found that lifestyle migrants articulate an anti-materialist rhetoric and their experiences of retirement or self-employment diminish the significance of class divisions.
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The warrior's beauty: the masculine body and self-identity in Bronze-Age Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of ideology has figured centrally in recent accounts of the fundamental social transformation sweeping Europe from the mid-fifth to second millennia BC, and many have focused on the human body as a principal medium of ideological expression, notably in terms of a growing prestige goods ideology.