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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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Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the factors that influence the social performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission and sustain their operations through commercial activities by studying work integra, and examine the influence of these factors on social performance.
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First Grade and Educational Attainment by Age 22: A New Story.
TL;DR: The authors found that first graders' social contexts and personal resources explain educational attainment levels in early adulthood about as well as do similar resources measured in adolescence, and the predictive power of race, gender, SES, and neighborhood quality measured in first grade on educational status at age 22 supports Lucas's "effectively maintained inequality".
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A confessional account of an ethnography about knowledge work
TL;DR: Based on data collected during an eight-month ethnographic study of three groups of knowledge workers-computer system administrators, competitive intelligence analysts, and librarians-I explore the informing practices they relied upon.
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A Collective Fear of the Collective: Implications for Selves and Theories of Selves
TL;DR: The authors argue that a group's cultural ideal of the relation between the self and the collective is pervasive because it is rooted in institutions, practices, and scripts, not just in ideas and values, and show how a given cultural ideal whether it is independence or interdependence can shape the individual's experience and expression of the self.
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The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations
Marcie J. Tyre,Eric von Hippel +1 more
TL;DR: The process of problem solving involving new production equipment during early factory use is examined to suggest that traditional, decontextualized theories of adaptive learning and of collaboration could be improved by taking into account that learning occurs through people interacting in context ---or, more specifically, in multiple contexts.