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The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes
Elizabeth Shove
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Description for The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes
Paperback. A Clever, innovative book which makes an important contribution to social theory and social policy. An effective introduction it covers core themes and demonstrates exactly how our everyday life is defined by the rise, change and collapse of social practices. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic.
In working through core propositions about social practices and how they change the book is clear and accessible; real world examples, including the history of car driving, the emergence of frozen food, and the fate of hula hooping, bring abstract concepts to life and firmly ground them in empirical case-studies and new research.
Demonstrating ... Read more
Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic.
In working through core propositions about social practices and how they change the book is clear and accessible; real world examples, including the history of car driving, the emergence of frozen food, and the fate of hula hooping, bring abstract concepts to life and firmly ground them in empirical case-studies and new research.
Demonstrating ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
276g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857020437
SKU
V9780857020437
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Ref
99-2
About Elizabeth Shove
Professor Elizabeth Shove teaches Sociology at Lancaster University. Mika Pantzar is currently Research Director in the Consumer Society Research Centre, based at the University of Helsinki. Dr Matt Watson is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.
Reviews for The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes
Recent discussions of research "impact" tend to assume that moving from theory to practice is easy. In fact, it is often very hard. Hence it is unsurprising, if apparently paradoxical, that the theory of practice usually appears abstruse and even impractical. Hence, too, the tremendous achievement of The Dynamics of Social Practice. The book not ... Read more