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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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Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective:
TL;DR: In this article, an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one.
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Can’t see the wood for the trees, can’t see the trees for the numbers? Accounting education, sustainability and the Public Interest
Rob Gray,David Collison +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the question "What do accountants need to know about the environment?" with a subsidiary question "how are they to acquire this knowledge?" These questions prove to be more complex than they appear and raise questions about the meaning of "environment", the purpose and role of accountants, the structure of the UK accounting profession and the role of education.
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Gender, Sociological Theory and Bourdieu’s Sociology of Practice
TL;DR: While feminist sociology has succeeded in being recognized as a legitimate field of sociological research (yet mainly as a limited field within the broader discipline), its core objective is not to be recognized.
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"Not Designed for Us": How Science Museums and Science Centers Socially Exclude Low-income, Minority Ethnic Groups.
TL;DR: An analysis of exclusion fromscience learning opportunities during visits alongside participants’ attitudes, expectations, and conclusions about participation in ISE suggests ISE practices were grounded in expectations about visitors’ scientific knowledge, language skills, and finances in ways that were problematic for participants and excluded them from science learning opportunities.
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Consumption, human needs, and global environmental change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a multigenic theory based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, which accepts multiple types of causes of consumption, operating at different analytical levels, from the individual, through household, community and ultimately to nations and other groups.