The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

by Knorr Cetina,Karin

• ISBN13: 9780415228138
• ISBN10: 0415228131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory is the first book to provide an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It also shows how practice theory stands in opposition to numerous prevalent ways of thinking, such as structuralism, system theory, semiotics, and many strains of humanism.

Author Biography

Barry Barnes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter David Bloor is Reader in the Philosophy of Science in the Social Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh H. M. Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Cardiff Jeff Coulter is Professor of Sociology at Boston University Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley Karin Knorr Cetina is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld Michael Lynch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University Andrew Pickering is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana Joseph Rouse is Professor of Philosophy and of the Science, Medicine, and Culture Program at Wesleyan University Eike von Savigny is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld Theodore R. Schatzki is Professor of Philosophy and codirector of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky Charles Spinosa is Head of Research at Vision Consulting Ann Swidler is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley Laurent Thevenot is Professor in the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Stephen Turner is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of South Florida

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: practice theory	1	(14)
Theodore R. Schatzki
PART I Practices and social orders	15	(78)
Practice as collective action	17	(12)
Barry Barnes
Human practices and the observability of the `macro-social'	29	(13)
Jeff Coulter
Practice mind-ed orders	42	(14)
Theodore R. Schatzki
Pragmatic regimes governing the engagement with the world	56	(18)
Laurent Thevenot
What anchors cultural practices	74	(19)
Ann Swidler
PART II Inside practices	93	(56)
Wittgenstein and the priority of practice	95	(12)
David Bloor
What is tacit knowledge?	107	(13)
H. M. Collins
Throwing out the tacit rule book: learning and practices	120	(11)
Stephen Turner
Ethnomethodology and the logic of practice	131	(18)
Michael Lynch
PART III Posthumanist challenges	149	(64)
How Heidegger defends the possibility of a correspondence theory of truth with respect to the entities of natural science	151	(12)
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Practice and posthumanism: social theory and a history of agency	163	(12)
Andrew Pickering
Objectual practice	175	(14)
Karin Knorr Cetina
Two concepts of practices	189	(10)
Joseph Rouse
Derridian dispersion and Heideggerian articulation: general tendencies in the practices that govern intelligibility	199	(14)
Charles Spinosa
Bibliography	213	(18)
Index	231