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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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Toward a critical theory of untidy geographies: the spatiality of emotions in consumption and production

Nancy Ettlinger
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a non-essentialist, normative view of the spatiality of emotions in consumption and production, underscoring issues of difference in everyday life, is presented, where managers can use this knowledge to achieve competitiveness by accommodating workers' needs and nurturing collaboration.
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The jury and abjury of my peers: the self in face and dignity cultures.

TL;DR: Across 3 experiments, dignity culture participants showed a studied indifference to the judgments of their peers, ignoring peers' assessments--whether those assessments were public or private, were positive or negative, or were made by qualified peers or unqualified peers.
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Gendered Work Meets Gendered Goods: Selling and Service in Clothing Retail

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How Teachers' Professional Identities Position High-Stakes Test Preparation in Their Classrooms

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present profiles of two high school English teachers and their classrooms as the teachers responded to mandated high-stakes test accountability, and they describe how both teachers unwittingly stymied their own test preparation objectives.
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Toward Understanding How Social Capital Mediates the Impact of Mobility on Mexican American Achievement

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether Mexican Americans learn less in school than non-Latino Whites, in part because they have limited social capital due to the fact that they are more mobile during their school careers.