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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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Is ‘distinction’ really outdated? Questioning the meaning of the omnivorization of musical taste in contemporary France

Philippe Coulangeon, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined Bourdieu's theoretical legacy by means of a multi-correspondence analysis of people's listening habits in various musical genres and confirmed that upper-class and high-status groups tend to distinguish themselves by the variety of their musical consumption.
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Cultural health capital and the interactional dynamics of patient-centered care

Leslie Dubbin, +2 more
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is found that the accomplishment of patient-centered care is highly dependent upon habitus and the cultural health capital that both patients and providers bring to health care interactions.
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Weak ties and the core discussion network: Why people regularly discuss important matters with unimportant alters

Mario Luis Small
- 01 Jul 2013 - 
TL;DR: This work examines what respondents consider important matters and why they approach weak ties to discuss these, and develops two theoretical perspectives, which focus on how people identify those appropriate to a topic and how they respond to opportunities in interactional contexts.
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Globalization, localization and sustainable livelihood

Leo de Haan
- 01 Jul 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, sustainable livelihood is represented as a whole of dynamic interactions between actors and five vital capitals i.e. human, natural, physical, financial, and social capital.
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Online Community as space for knowledge flows

Samer Faraj, +3 more
- 01 Dec 2016 - 
TL;DR: The conditions for flows of tacit and explicit knowledge in online communities are distinguished and an unconventional theoretical conjecture is advanced: Online communities give rise to tacit knowledge flows between participants.