Outline of a Theory of Practice.
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.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of victim cooperation in the prosecution of domestic violence cases in a specialized court in Toronto, Canada was examined and it was shown that when a victim is perceived to be cooperative, the odds that a case will be prosecuted are seven times higher than if the victim is not perceived to cooperate.
Abstract: We address the role of victim cooperation in the prosecution of domestic violence cases in a specialized court in Toronto, Canada. We first examine what factors predict whether a case will proceed to prosecution. We find that, even in a court designed to minimize reliance on victim cooperation through the use of other types of evidence, when prosecutors perceive a victim to be cooperative, the odds that a case will be prosecuted are seven times higher than if a victim is not perceived to be cooperative. In the second part of our analysis, where we seek to determine the correlates of victim cooperation, we find that the two most important determinants of victim cooperation are the availability of videotaped testimony and meetings between victims and victim/witness assistance workers. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research and policy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors declare that these "affrontements ethniques" constituaient un aspect d'une contre-strategie a la politique de liberalisation, mise en place par des membres influents du gouvernement du President Daniel arap Moi.
Abstract: ResumeEn 1991, sous la pression de protestataires internes et de donateurs, le Kenya a parti unique a adopte le multipartisme. La liberalisation politique a precipite les “affrontements ethniques” qui allaient eventuellement conduire a la mort de milliers de personnes et au deplacement de centaines de milliers d’autres. Cet article declare que ces “affrontements ethniques” constituaient un aspect d’une contre-strategie a la politique de liberalisation, mise en place par des membres influents du gouvernement du President Daniel arap Moi. Utilisant l’exemple de la circonscription electorale de Narok North, l’article montre comment les “affrontements ethniques” pourraient faire partie d’une strategie efficace pour maintenir le controle du parti dominant dans un contexte multipartite.
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TL;DR: The notion of economic hybridity is proposed as an alternative to the Marxist concept of "articulation of modes of production" to account for the coming together of economic logics and practices from different epochs and cultural histories as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This article takes up J K Gibson‐Graham’s call for a theoretical move away from a model of monolithic global capitalism and notions of one‐way “penetration” of capitalism The notion of “economic hybridity” (derived from Bakhtin’s writing on linguistic hybridity) is proposed as an alternative to the Marxist concept of “articulation of modes of production” to account for the coming together of economic logics and practices from different epochs and cultural histories The ethnography that sustains this discussion addresses the significance of popular religious revival in rural Wenzhou, on the southeast coast of China, and its role in the postsocialist market economy Borrowing from Georges Bataille’s notion of “ritual expenditure” and from early Baudrillard on symbolic economies, the case study shows that rural Wenzhou’s ritual economy harbors an archaic economic logic which is subversive of capitalist, state socialist, and developmental‐state principles The older strains of an alternative economic logi
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TL;DR: The authors provide a series of critical realist reflections on the limits of approaches within and beyond the sociology of health and illness, which begin and end with meaning, discourse and the empirical world.
Abstract: This paper provides a series of critical realist (CR) reflections on the limits of approaches, within and beyond the sociology of health and illness, which begin and end with meaning, discourse and the empirical world. The first part of the paper provides a brief review of traditions, trends and tensions within the sociology of health and illness, with particular reference to the shortcomings of positivist and interpretivist legacies. This in turn provides a backdrop and paves the way, in the second main part of the paper, for a detailed discussion of the merits of CR in moving beyond these former impasses, with particular reference to (i) non-conflationary approaches to ontological and epistemological matters, (ii) principles of stratification and emergence, (iii) habitus and the ‘primacy’ of practice, and (iv) the (morphogenetic) relationship between structure and agency. The relevance of these insights to health is then hammered home in the third part of the paper, through three key examples of realist research in action, so to speak. The paper concludes with some further reflections on the promise and potential of critical realism for health, as an ‘underlabouring philosophy’, and the future agendas it signals.
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25 Feb 2008
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