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Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
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Wellbeing Research in Developing Countries: Reviewing the Role of Qualitative Methods
TL;DR: This article reviewed the contribution of qualitative methods to exploring concepts and experiences of wellbeing among children and adults living in developing countries and provided some practical and methodological recommendations for using these methods for developing sensitive and relevant quantitative measures.
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The imagery and reality of peer review in the U.S.: Insights from institutional theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reinterpreted the discourse of peer review to examine its societal consequences and its implications for the future of professional claims, and used institutional theory as a template to address the discrepancies between what this technology promises and what it delivers.
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Can Ideas be Capital? Factors of Production in the Postindustrial Economy: A Review and Critique
Alison Dean,Martin Kretschmer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a taxonomy of the possible characteristics and location of intellectual capital in post-industrial production is presented, and a theoretical exposition of capital as the durable result of past production processes is given.
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Common Senses: Water, Sensory Experience and the Generation of Meaning
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between sensory experience, material reality and the creation of cross-cultural meanings is discussed, with a focus on water, and a comparison of two, highly diverse, ethnographic examples: one an Aboriginal community living alongside the Mitchell River in Far North Queensland, and the other describing the groups inhabiting a river valley in the south of England.
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Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology and Workplace Studies
TL;DR: The work of as discussed by the authors proposes that mutual understanding (orienting objects, meaning, and identities) in interactions, including technical situations of work, requires constant mutual orientation to situated constitutive expectancies, accompanied by displays of attention, competence, and trust.