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: This study explored how people describe their commuting experiences and make commuting decisions, and how travel behaviour is embedded in and shaped by commuters' complex social worlds, and suggested that everyday decision-making in commuting requires the tactical negotiation of these complexities.
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TL;DR: Il soutient qu'il faut, dans les approches contemporaines, conjoindre les dimensions du politique and du pouvoir, mais egalement of the vertu et of the morale.
Abstract: Proposant une mise en perspective des fondements epistemologiques de l'anthropologie religieuse, l'A. examine les questions suivantes : 1. l'apport de certains aspects de la pensee d'Aristote pour une approche de la religion ; 2. la signification de la moralite pour l'anthropologie religieuse et la theorie sociale ; 3. la dimension pratique des approches de la moralite et l'apport complementaire d'Aristote et de Roy Rappaport ; 4. l'integration de la dimension morale dans l'interpretation de la pratique. Il suggere qu'une theorie de la pratique se doit de prendre en compte le jugement raisonne, tel que cela a ete developpe dans des interpretations recentes de l'Ethique d'Aristote. Finalement, il soutient qu'il est necessaire d'aller au-dela de la caracterisation et de l'evaluation unique de la raison abstraite par Platon, et qu'il faut, dans les approches contemporaines, conjoindre les dimensions du politique et du pouvoir, mais egalement de la vertu et de la morale.
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14 Aug 2014TL;DR: A political sociology of European integration can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the stigma of Euro-outsiderness, the revolving doors of freedom, justice and security, and late sovereign diplomacy.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Disintegrating Europe? 3. A political sociology of European integration 4. The stigma of Euro-outsiderness 5. Through the revolving doors of freedom, justice and security 6. Late sovereign diplomacy 7. Conclusion.
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TL;DR: The authors examines some of the ways in which debates about globalization and education have changed since the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath, and argues that some of these claims about the world 'changing for ever' are clearly simplistic and grossly exaggerated.
Abstract: This article examines some of the ways in which debates about globalization and education have changed since the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. From a postcolonial perspective, I argue that while some of the claims about the world ‘changing for ever’ are clearly simplistic and grossly exaggerated, there are at least three ways in which new elements have been introduced to the debates about globalization. First, there has emerged a new narrative of security, which has major implications for thinking about issues of mobility across national‐boundaries, both of people and of capital. Second, the view that the authority of the nation states is in decline has been shown to be overstated since nation states are now required to perform a range of new administrative, cultural and coercive functions. And finally, the antagonistic relationship between the West and Islam has become a major impediment to the realization of cosmopolitan objectives. Each of these developments has implications ...
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TL;DR: A sketch of the assumptions, values, frameworks and techniques that currently characterise linguistic ethnography can be found in this article, where a series of historical, institutional and/or methodological encounters are considered, looking at the questions and possibilities that these interactions generate.
Abstract: This chapter provides a sketch of the assumptions, values, frameworks and techniques that currently characterise linguistic ethnography. In keeping with the dynamic that makes it a productive and appealing perspective, we ground our account in a series of historical, institutional and/or methodological encounters, looking at the questions and possibilities that these interactions generate. So we consider the relationships between:
linguistics and ethnography
elements interacting in the communicative process
linguistic ethnography and researchers from different disciplines
linguistic ethnography and non-academic professionals
In the section titled ‘Ethnography, linguistics and linguistic ethnography’, we look at what is involved in the combination of linguistics with ethnography, and at some relatively recent historical changes that have influenced their relationship, strengthening the epistemological status of ethnography and sharpening the analytic relevance of linguistics. In the section titled ‘Describing the elements interacting in communication’, we turn to the communication process itself and describe key elements in the theory of language and society developed in linguistic anthropology. We emphasise the power of the contribution not just to linguistic ethnography but to practice theory more generally, with practice theory understood as a ‘broad and capacious … general theory of the production of social subjects through practice, and the production of the world itself through practice’ (Ortner 2006: 16).
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