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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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The Sociology of Consumption: Its Recent Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the development of the sociology of consumption and identify three periods in its evolution: origins prior to the 1980s, the years between the 1980 and the mid-2000s under the influence of the cultural turn; and the subsequent decade, when new theoretical perspectives and political issues have emerged.
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Gender and prehistoric technology: On the social agency of technical strategies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework and methodology for studying the social agency of prehistoric technology with the goal of understanding the dialectic of gendered practices and technical strategies.
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Silence, Power and Communication in the Operating Room
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Increasing the College Preparedness of At-Risk Students
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TL;DR: The authors found no statistically significant 2-year effects of program participation on students' reading scores, although a slight, nonsignificant trend across the study period suggested some closing of the statistically significant gap between the 2 groups in the baseline year.
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The Student-Initiated Retention Project: Theoretical Contributions and the Role of Self-Empowerment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that contemporary social integration and multicultural theories of student retention theory do not adequately address the academic needs of underrepresented students of color and propose a theoretical framework grounded in the concepts of cultural and so...