Kevin McMillan

The Constitution of Social Practices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contends that practices are perhaps the most fundamental building-block of social reality and asks what social scientists' research would look like if they took this insight seriously. Arguing for the importance of detailed empirical study of human practices to effective social-scientific inquiry, and the centrality to social theory of a well-developed practice theory, the author examines the generic features of human practices, the means by which they can be identified, characterised and explained, how they function and how they might change across time and space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781138894617
• ISBN-10: 1138894613
• Artikelnr.: 49566798

Autorenporträt

Kevin McMillan

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction
1 A "Cultural" Approach to Social Science
2 Practice Theory Today
3 Core Ontological Commitments
4 Sketch of the Argument
5 Of Philosophy and Social Science
Chapter 1: What Are Practices?
1 Actions under a Description
2 Looping Effects
3 Historical Constitution
Chapter 2: Knowledge
1 Knowledgeable Practices
2 Conceptualising Knowledge
Chapter 3: Retroactive Redescription
1 The Validity of Retroactive Redescription
2 The Effects of Retroactive Redescription
3 Functional Concepts and Typological Classification;
4 What Is at Stake?
Chapter 4: Identification and Context
1 Identifying Practices "in All Their Specificity"
2 Relations and Relational Properties
3 Criteria of Identification
Chapter 5: Specificity and Generalisation
1 Functions
2 Implications for Generalisation, Explanation and Description
3 Patchwork Holism
Chapter 6: Possibility and Capacities
1 Possibility
2 Capacities
Chapter 7: Constitutive Relations and Constitutive Theory
1 Constitutive Theory
2 Constitutive Relations
3 Stability and Change
Conclusion
1 Culture and Action in the Social Sciences
2 Some Benefits of Studying Practices
Works Cited