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Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
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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.read more
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Engagement, Gentrification, and the Neoliberal Hijacking of History
TL;DR: The authors examined the use of historic conservation to justify gentrification in Greece, Italy, and Thailand, and found that historic conservation often provides an excuse for intervention into urban life, and that this commoditization of history expands into urban design a classification that serves the goals of neoliberal modernity.
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Disentangling 'Cultural Capital': The Consequences of Cultural and Economic Resources for Taste and Participation
Meir Yaish,Tally Katz-Gerro +1 more
TL;DR: This article argued that cultural participation is constrained to a larger degree by financial resources than by tastes and to a lesser degree by cultural resources (parental cultural capital, father's education, and respondent's education).
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Be(com)ing the chief financial officer of an organisation: Experimenting with Bourdieu's practice theory
Jane Baxter,Wai Fong Chua +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an outline of Bourdieu's practice theory and discuss the importance of traditional management accounting practices to a CFO's habitus and style, and the heterodox accounting practices that this CFO was attempting to implement, and conclude by considering the more general implications of a desire to experiment with the practice frame and outline issues relating to the ways in which we characterise the ontology and epistemology of management accounting practice.
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Refugees in higher education: boundaries of belonging and recognition, stigma and exclusion
TL;DR: For highly educated refugee professionals who fled to the UK gaining, a university qualification is one of the key strategies which can be used to re-establish a professional identity and find employment, and yet little is known about their experiences in higher education as discussed by the authors.
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Participative Observation: Standing in the Shoes of Others?
TL;DR: It is argued that participant observation is more than mere method and in need of greater theoretical attention, particularly for its more participative forms, which are inseparable from assumptions about the role of the body in the generation of knowledge.