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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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Anthropology, Interviewing, and Communicability in Contemporary Society
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Rethinking ancient Maya social organization : Replacing lineage with house
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The sociology of Bourdieu and the construction of the 'object' in translation and interpreting studies
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Open-ended interviews, power, and emotional labor
TL;DR: The authors investigated the power dynamics of the interview process and the connected emotional labor, drawing on examples from a recent study on workplace grievances in which most data collection was through open-ended interviews.
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Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding policy practices: action, dialectic and deliberation in policy analysis
Hendrik Wagenaar,S. D. Noam Cook +1 more
TL;DR: The modernist legacy in policy analysis has been a vanguard of the modernist project, the pervasive cultural programme characteristic of the western world, to take rational, scientific control over the social and physical environment and shape it according to a preconceived ideal.