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Outline of a Theory of Practice.

Arthur W. Frank, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1980 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 2, pp 256
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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.

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Organization, Surveillance and the Body: Towards a Politics of Resistance:

TL;DR: In this article, the problematic of embodied resistance to biometric surveillance practices is examined, and resistance is conceptualized at the interface of bodies and technologies, and is antagonistic towards categorizations and fixities produced by biometrics.
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So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation

Greg Noble, +1 more
- 22 Oct 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a productive conceptualization of habitus that attends to the various intensities of consciousness, the relations between multiple mind-bodies and processes of habituation through a focus on the literature of sports training is presented.
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A Dynamic Theory of Expertise and Occupational Boundaries in New Technology Implementation: Building on Barley's Study of CT Scanning

TL;DR: A theory to explain why the implementation of new technologies often disrupts occupational roles in ways that delay the expected benefits is developed and a balance of expertise across occupational boundaries in operating the technology creates a pattern in which the benefits of the new technology are likely to be realized most rapidly.
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Transformational responses to climate change: beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the origins and enactment of social change in a complex-systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregrounding material over social drivers of change.
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Other Transitions: Multiple Economies of Moscow Households in the 1990s

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine survival strategies of urban households in post-socialist cities during the transition from the Soviet system to a market economy and link the outcomes of systemic transformation to the daily lives of households and connect urban change induced by mass privatization to class and gender processes inside the households.