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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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Social structures and desistance from crime
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Within school and beyond the gate: the complexities of being educationally successful and working-class
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Material metaphors: The relational construction of identity in Early Bronze Age burials in Ireland and Britain
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Place, identity and local politics: analysing initiatives in deliberative governance
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Relational Thinking: A Critique of Co-Deterministic Theories of Structure and Agency*:
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