9780367144531: Social Change in a Material World
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ISBN 10: 0367144530 ISBN 13: 9780367144531
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2019

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Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of significant differences in bundles of practices and material arrangements. Illustrated with examples from the history of bourbon distillation and the formation and evolution of digitally-mediated associations in contemporary life, the book argues that chains of activity combine with material events and processes to cause social changes. The book thereby stresses the significance of the material dimension of society for the constitution, determination, and explanation of social phenomena, as well as the types of space needed to understand them. The book also challenges the explanatory significance of such key phenomena as power, dependence, relations, mechanisms, and individual behavior. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, organization studies scholars, and others interested in social life and social change.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Theodore R. Schatzki is Professor of Geography, and of Philosophy and Sociology, at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is the author of Social Practices, The Site of the Social, Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space, and The Timespace of Human Activity. He is also co-editor of, among other works, The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, The Nexus of Practices, and Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367144530
ISBN 13 
9780367144531
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
228
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9780367144524: Social Change in a Material World

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ISBN 10:  0367144522 ISBN 13:  9780367144524
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2019
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