The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge and Prepositions

by David Turner

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This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession that is 'shared' by and the same for different people, has a fatal difficulty, the author argues. This object must in some way be transmitted, 'reproduced', in Bourdieu's famous phrase, in different persons...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0745613721

ISBN13:9780745613727

Release Date:March 1994

Publisher:Polity Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Philosophy

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