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The Constitution of Social Practices (Paperback)
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The Constitution of Social Practices (Paperback)
Series: Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
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Practices - specific, recurrent types of human action and activity
- are perhaps the most fundamental "building blocks" of social
reality. This book argues that the detailed empirical study of
practices is essential to effective social-scientific inquiry. It
develops a philosophical infrastructure for understanding human
practices, and argues that practice theory should be the analytical
centrepiece of social theory and the philosophy of the social
sciences. What would social scientists' research look like if they
took these insights seriously? To answer this question, the book
offers an analytical framework to guide empirical research on
practices in different times and places. The author explores how
practices can be identified, characterised and explained, how they
function in concrete contexts and how they might change over time
and space. The Constitution of Social Practices lies at the
intersection of philosophy, social theory, cultural theory and the
social sciences. It is essential reading for scholars in social
theory and the philosophy of social science, as well as the broad
range of researchers and students across the social sciences and
humanities whose work stands to benefit from serious consideration
of practices.
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