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Constitution of Social Practices [Kõva köide]

(University of Ottawa, Canada)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 198 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2017
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138894613
  • ISBN-13: 9781138894617
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 198 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2017
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138894613
  • ISBN-13: 9781138894617
Teised raamatud teemal:
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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"What constitutes "practice theory" is often bewildering. McMillan not only does an excellent job of sorting this out but presents a distinctive original argument for a cultural approach, based on a theory of human action and the philosophy of social science, which is applicable as an approach to empirical studies." - John G. Gunnell, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, State University of New York, Albany, USA.

"A welcome antidote to the confusion that surrounds the use of the concept of practice in the social sciences today, The Constitution of Social Practices offers a fresh philosophical analysis of this concept and explores its implications across a broad range of empirical fields, thereby adding new clarity and rigor to the study of practices." - Jens Bartelson, Lund University, Sweden. "What constitutes "practice theory" is often bewildering. McMillan not only does an excellent job of sorting this out but presents a distinctive original argument for a cultural approach, based on a theory of human action and the philosophy of social science, which is applicable as an approach to empirical studies."- John G. Gunnell, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, State University of New York, Albany, USA.

"A welcome antidote to the confusion that surrounds the use of the concept of practice in the social sciences today, The Constitution of Social Practices offers a fresh philosophical analysis of this concept and explores its implications across a broad range of empirical fields, thereby adding new clarity and rigor to the study of practices." - Jens Bartelson, Lund University, Sweden.

List of figures
ix
Introduction 1(19)
1 A "cultural" approach to social science
2(2)
2 Practice theory today
4(4)
3 Core ontological commitments
8(2)
4 Sketch of the argument
10(4)
5 Of philosophy and social science
14(6)
1 What are practices?
20(16)
1 Actions under a description
22(6)
2 Looping effects
28(2)
3 Historical constitution
30(6)
2 Knowledge
36(25)
1 Knowledgeable practices
36(4)
2 Conceptualising knowledge
40(21)
3 Retroactive redescription
61(24)
1 The validity of retroactive redescription
64(4)
2 The effects of retroactive redescription
68(5)
3 Functional concepts and typological classification
73(5)
4 What is at stake?
78(7)
4 Identification and context
85(18)
1 Identifying practices "in all their specificity"
85(3)
2 Relations and relational properties
88(4)
3 Criteria of identification
92(11)
5 Specificity and generalisation
103(20)
1 Functions
103(8)
2 Implications for generalisation, explanation and description
111(7)
3 Patchwork holism
118(5)
6 Possibility and capacities
123(22)
1 Possibility
123(8)
2 Capacities
131(14)
7 Constitutive relations and constitutive theory
145(12)
1 Constitutive theory
145(1)
2 Constitutive relations
146(6)
3 Stability and change
152(5)
Conclusion
157(17)
1 Culture and action in the social sciences
158(4)
2 Some benefits of studying practices
162(12)
Works cited 174(16)
Index 190
Kevin McMillan