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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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