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Karin Knorr Cetina (Editor), Theodore R. Schatzki (Editor), Eike von Savigny (Editor)

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January 18, 2001 041522814X 978-0415228145 1
This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology.

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'Some of the chapters in the book contribute to a fairly advanced theoretical and philosophical discussion.' - Scandinavian Journal of Managment

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Theodore R. Schatzki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA. Karin Knorr-Cetina is Professor of Sociology and Eike von Savigny is Professor of Philosophy, both at the University of Bielefield, Germany.

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References to shared practices or to agreement in practice have long figured in the discourse of sociologists, but in recent years they have taken on an enhanced importance. Read the first page
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