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Outline of a Theory of Practice.

01 Mar 1980-Contemporary Sociology-Vol. 9, Iss: 2, pp 256
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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01 Oct 2003-Poetics
TL;DR: In this article, a set of detailed transcriptions of conferences between teachers and parents of middle-class children, on the one hand, and working-class and poor children, were examined, and the interaction that occurs in such conferences at the micro-level.

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Fabio Rojas1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that actors may seek power by creating, supporting, or modifying institutions, and that actors can leverage symbolic resources into coercive resources, which may require making concessions to multiple logics and stakeholders.
Abstract: Introducing a process model of power and institutional change, I argue that actors may seek power by creating, supporting, or modifying institutions. Lacking unilateral authority to enact new institutions, actors can leverage symbolic resources into coercive resources, which may require making concessions to multiple logics and stakeholders. The emergent organizations and institutions are then subject to adjustment to stakeholder and regulator expectations. The argument is illustrated in a case study of the 1968 Third World Strike at San Francisco State College, where the college president strove to increase his authority so he could prevail in a dispute with student activists.

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TL;DR: In this paper, food donation by large retailers to the British charity FareShare and its franchises for redistribution to charities, examining how far the aims of waste minimisation and food poverty relief are achieved.
Abstract: This paper analyses food donation by large retailers to the British charity FareShare and its franchises for redistribution to charities, examining how far the aims of waste minimisation and food poverty relief are achieved. The research emphasises the logistical arrangements for retail food waste reduction. FareShare's tripartite model, in which it brokers between retailers and charities, is efficient and effective. However, our research highlights frictions within the model that may vitiate its wider application: the hierarchy of donor, redistributive agency and client limits the clients’ ability to control food flows; individual franchises’ success depends on relationships with store managers; amongst retailers, tensions exist between profit maximisation, waste minimisation and brand control. Surplus food needs to be donated early in the supply chain to maximise utility for recipients; this may conflict with logistical and property arrangements to control brands and delay ownership of food items. Possibilities for improving and extending the service delivery model are discussed, as are current limitations. For example, the logistics of redistributing perishable items limit the possibilities for extending the model to smaller retailers with more sporadic surpluses.

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TL;DR: Symbolic interactionism is a theoretical perspective in sociology that addresses the manner in which society is created and maintained through face-to-face, repeated, meaningful interactions among people as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Symbolic interactionism is a theoretical perspective in sociology that addresses the manner in which society is created and maintained through face-to-face, repeated, meaningful interactions among ...

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TL;DR: In the last two decades, a cultural shift reflected in advice books concerns a more marginal ideology, feminism, and the commercial transmutation of it is a shift that is smaller, I hope, in scale.
Abstract: Bestselling advice books for women published in the United States over the last two decades may offer a glimpse into an important wider trend in popular culture. This trend is a curious, latter-day parallel to the very different cultural shift Max Weber describes in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 2 (1958). The current cultural shift differs in the object of its ideas (love and not work), in the social sphere it most affects (the family and not the economy) and in the population most immediately influenced (women, not men). The cultural shift reflected in advice books concerns a more marginal ideology, feminism, and the commercial transmutation of it is a shift that is smaller, I hope, in scale. Like the earlier trend, this one represents the outcome of an ongoing cultural struggle, gives rise to countertrends, and is uneven in its effect. But the parallel is there. Just as Protestantism, according to Max Weber, “escaped from the cage” of the Church to be transposed into an inspirational “spirit of capitalism” that drove men to make money and build capitalism, so feminism may be “escaping from the cage” of a social movement to buttress a commercial spirit of intimate life that was originally separate from and indeed alien to it. 3 Just as market conditions ripened the soil for capitalism, so a weakened family prepares the soil for a commercialized spirit of domestic life. 4 Magnified moments in advice books tell this story. In exploring evidence of this shift, this parallel, I'm assuming that bestselling advice books for women published between 1970 and 1990 are a likely bell-wether of trends in the popular ideas governing women's approach to intimate life. I also assume that advice books, like other commercial and professional conveyors of guidance, are becoming more important while traditional spheres of authority, families and to a degree churches, are becoming less so. 5 Thus, while

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