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The idea that practice theory is first an orientation towards understanding and explaining the social in terms of socio-material practices and their association helps distinguish a weak and strong programme in the wider ‘practice turn’.
Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture as the result of structure and individual agency.
Practice theory mainly studies how people act in given structures both formal and informal, of their society and culture. The main aim of practice theory is to show that people as social actors affect the structure in which they live and are in turn affected by the structure themselves.
17 Φεβ 2017 · Practice theory, as I understand it, is a family of ways of understanding the social that gives handles to empirical researchers. Practice theory should, therefore, be mainly conceived as a theoretical orientation towards the study of the social, where the methodological element remains central.
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15 Νοε 2007 · Practice theory has its roots in anti-intellectualist and anti-dualist social philosophy, above all in Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger. In contemporary social theory, the works of Pierre Bourdieu, Theodore Schatzki, Anthony Giddens, Harold Garfinkel, and others contain diverse forms of practice theory.
"Introduction: Updating Practice Theory", Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject, Sherry B. Ortner Download citation file: Zotero
