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

by David Turner

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"