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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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Social support and the significance of shared experience in refugee migration and resettlement.
TL;DR: The study describes refugees' decision making during stages of migration and resettlement, from whom they seek social support in particular situations, what sources are appraised as most important, and what is significant about the support.
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“Those invisible barriers are real”: The Progression of First-Generation Students Through Doctoral Education
Susan K. Gardner,Karri A. Holley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the conceptual framework of social capital to study the experiences of 20 first-generation students currently enrolled in doctoral degree programs and highlight those structures and processes that offer tacit knowledge to students about how to pursue higher education.
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Blat and Guanxi : Informal Practices in Russia and China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare informal practices used to obtain goods and services in short supply and to circumvent formal procedures in Russia and China, and assess their changes and continuities during the market reforms.
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Using the theory of habitus to move beyond the study of barriers to technology integration
TL;DR: The definition of technology integration is clarified and the contention that barriers, particularly those related to teacher beliefs, are behind the lack of technology Integration is questioned.
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Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: "Postmodernism" and the Social Reproduction of Texts
TL;DR: The authors argued that postmodernists' "privileging" of experience unintentionally reproduces the epistemology of Western individualism in the name of its radical deconstruction, and pointed out that the boundaries of reflexivity constructed in ''postmodernist'' discourse (focusing mainly on authority in texts) have been framed in ultimately misleading and surprisingly unreflective ways that diminish both the legitimacy and the logic of postmodernist claims.