Practice Theory, Work, and Organization
An Introduction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 December 2012
- ISBN 9780199231591
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 233x182x14 mm
- Weight 444 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures 0
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Short description:
This book is a rigorous yet accessible introduction to contemporary practice theories, discussing their distinctive contribution to the study of work and organizations. It surveys their origins, theoretical assumptions, concepts, and application.
MoreLong description:
What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer something new to the study of work and organization?
Practice theories are a set of conceptual tools and methodologies for investigating, analysing, and representing everyday practice. They develop the idea that phenomena such as knowledge, meaning, science, power, organized activity, sociality, and institutions are rooted in practice. The volume provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to this emerging area of study. Recognizing that a unified theory of practice does not exist, the book surveys the main scholarly traditions that have, collectively, contributed to the practice turn in social and organization studies. Each chapter examines the main assumptions and concepts of these traditions, discussing their distinctive contribution to work and organization studies. The chapters are accompanied by a fully worked example of how the theory can be applied to empirical research, making the text suitable for teaching purposes.
The book will constitute a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in organization studies and management, and scholars across disciplines who are interested to know more about the topic.
The book is an extremely impressive accomplishment in terms of clarification of a body of heavy weight theoretical work. By not glossing over differences in an effort to produce a synthesis, a degree of clarity is give the multivocality of practise theory. As a result, the book provides a lucid guide through the philosophical landscape.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Praxis and Practice Theory: A Brief Historical Overview
Praxeology and the Work of Giddens and Bourdieu
Practice as Tradition and Community
Practice as Activity
Practice as Accomplishment
Practice as the House of the Social: Contemporary Developments of the Heideggerian and Wittgensteinian Traditions
Discourse and Practice
Bringing it All Together: a Toolkit to Study and Represent Practice at Work
