Journal ArticleDOI
Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
About:
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Why Does the Ethnic and Socio-economic Composition of Schools Influence Math Achievement? The Role of Sense of Futility and Futility Culture
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of ethnic and socio-economic composition of schools on academic performance and found that the remaining impact of SES composition can be explained by pupils' sense of futility and schools' futility culture.
Posted Content
How Iron is the Iron Cage of New Penology? The Role of Human Agency in the Implementation of Criminal Justice Policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the extent to which the concept of "new penology" is helpful in understanding penal currents, particularly as they relate to the older paradigms of retribution and rehabilitation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Toward an Ethnography of Silence The Lived Presence of the Past in the Everyday Life of Holocaust Trauma Survivors and Their Descendants in Israel
TL;DR: The ethnography of silent memory may also provide a tentative model of nontraumatic individual and familial memory work in everyday life.
Journal ArticleDOI
Actor-Network Theory and Methodology: Social Research in a More-Than-Human World:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the methodological implications of actor-network theory for social research and explore the use of ANT in the analysis of historical texts in the context of dairy milk in the UK.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Distance and Affective Orientations
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of five different ways in which normatively distant groups can be perceived is presented: as competitors, allies, symbols of otherness, saviors, and ambivalent figures.