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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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Toward a critical theory of untidy geographies: the spatiality of emotions in consumption and production
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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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How Teachers' Professional Identities Position High-Stakes Test Preparation in Their Classrooms
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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.