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

By Stephen P. Turner

Book Overview

The concept of human practices - practices of representation or constitutive practices that make up a political or scientific tradition or an organizational culture, practices of repression, sexist practices and so on - has today become central to social theory and to the bodies of discourse that surround it. This book presents an analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745605044
• ISBN13: 9780745605043
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 5.8" x 0.7"