Toward a Theory of Social Practices
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- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Journal of Social Theory
- Vol. 5 (2), 243-263
- https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310222225432
Abstract
This article works out the main characteristics of `practice theory', a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others. Practice theory is presented as a conceptual alternative to other forms of social and cultural theory, above all to culturalist mentalism, textualism and intersubjectivism. The article shows how practice theory and the three other cultural-theoretical vocabularies differ in their localization of the social and in their conceptualization of the body, mind, things, knowledge, discourse, structure/process and the agent.Keywords
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