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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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Practice-ing behaviour change: Applying social practice theory to pro-environmental behaviour change

TL;DR: This article applied the insights of social practice theory to the study of proenvironmental behavior change through an ethnographic case study (nine months of participant observation and 38 semi-semi-experiments).
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Between Space and Time: Reflections on the Geographical Imagination1

TL;DR: A study of the historical geography of concepts of space and time suggests that the roots of the social construction of these concepts lie in the mode of production and its characteristic social relations as mentioned in this paper.
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Language and space

TL;DR: In this article, a review describes some recent, unexpected findings concerning variation in spatial language across cultures and places them in the context of the general anthropology of space on the one hand, and theories of spatial cognition in the cognitive sciences on the other.
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Bordieu: What Makes a Social Class?: On the Theoretical and Practical Existence of Groups

TL;DR: One of the main obstacles to scientific sociology is the use we make of common oppositions, paired concepts, or what Bachelard calls "epistemological couples" constructed by social reality, these are unthinkingly used to construct social reality as mentioned in this paper.
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It's About Time: Temporal Structuring in Organizations

TL;DR: It is suggested that through their everyday action, actors produce and reproduce a variety of temporal structures which in turn shape the temporal rhythm and form of their ongoing practices.