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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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Learning as Becoming in Vocational Education and Training: Class, Gender and the Role of Vocational Habitus.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed the concept of "vocational habitus" to explain a central aspect of students' experience, as they have to orient to a particular set of dispositions -both idealised and realised.
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After taste: Culture, consumption and theories of practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the use of theories of practice as a lens to magnify aspects of common social processes which generate observable patterns of consumption, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the theory-of-practice as an approach to consumption.
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Injecting social psychology theory into conceptualisations of agricultural agency: Towards a post-productivist farmer self-identity?
Rob J.F. Burton,Geoff A. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the extent to which farmers' self-concepts and attitudes towards post-productivist approaches are compatible with the current structural changes in agriculture, and concluded that there is a temporal discordance between the macro- and micro-structural elements of transition implied in the P/PP/MF model, and that we are witnessing at most a partial macro-Structural driven transition towards a postproductivist agricultural regime.
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The First Shall Be Last? Entrepreneurship and Communist Cadres in the Transition from Socialism
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the sociological literature on the transition from socialism to capitalism and showed that during the transition ex-communist cadres maintain their advantageous position and do especially well in the more dynamic corporate segment.
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Empowerment in practice : from analysis to implementation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an easily accessible framework to readers, especially those for whom empowerment remains a puzzling development concern, conceptually and in application, which can be used for understanding, measuring, monitoring, and operationalizing empowerment policy and practice.