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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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Why Behavioural Health Promotion Endures Despite Its Failure to Reduce Health Inequities
Fran Baum,Matthew Fisher +1 more
TL;DR: The article identifies several reasons why behavioural forms of health promotion are inadequate for addressing social inequities in health and point to a dilemma that, despite these inadequacies and increasing evidence of the social determinants of health, behavioural approaches and policies have strong appeal to governments.
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Group decision‐making as a structurational process
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of group decision-making is presented, which focuses on the production and reproduction of social systems through the application of generative rules and resources, and its advantages over previous formulations are explored.
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The Spread of Security Communities: Communities of Practice, Self-Restraint, and NATO's Post-Cold War Transformation
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of analytical and normative arguments that highlight the leading role of practices in explaining the expansion of security communities is presented. But they do not discuss the role of practice in the formation of such communities.
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Organizing Moves in Software Support Hot Lines
TL;DR: This paper introduces the concept of the "move" as a unit of analysis in technical service interactions and uses it as the basis for a theory of organizational knowledge.
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The determinants of health: structure, context and agency.
TL;DR: An argument for a more historically-informed analysis of the relationships between social structure and health, using the knowledgeable narratives of people in places as a window onto those relationships.