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Dynamics of Social Practice Everyday Life and How It Changes

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ISBN-10: 0857020439

ISBN-13: 9780857020437

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elizabeth Shove, Mika Pantzar, Matt Watson

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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.Applying on a range of theoretical traditions to core propositions 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 the relevance of social theory for public policy problems, the authors show that the everyday is the basis of social…    
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Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 5/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.88" wide x 8.31" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

List of figures and table
About the authors
Acknowledgements
The Dynamics of Social Practice
Introducing theories of practice
Materials and resources
Sequence and structure
Making and Breaking Links
Material, competence and meaning
Car-driving - elements and linkages
Making links
Breaking links
Elements between practices
Standardization and diversity
Individual and collective careers
The Life of Elements
Modes of circulation
Transportation and access: material
Abstraction, reversal and migration: competence
Association and classification: meaning
Packing and unpacking
Emergence, disappearance and persistence
Recruitment, Defection and Reproduction
First encounters: networks and communities
Capture and commitment: careers and carriers
Collapse and transformation: the dynamics of defection
Daily paths, life paths and dominant projects
Connections Between Practices
Bundles and complexes
Collaboration and competition
Selection and integration
Coordinating daily life
Circuits of Reproduction
Monitoring practices-as-performances
Monitoring practices-as-entities
Cross-referencing practices-as-performances
Cross-referencing practices-as-entities
Aggregation
Elements of coordination
Intersecting circuits
Representing the Dynamics of Social Practice
Representing elements and practices
Characterizing circulation
Competition, transformation and convergence
Reproducing elements, practices and relations between them
Time and practice
Space and practice
Dominant projects and power
Promoting Transitions in Practice
Climate change and behaviour change
Basis of action
Processes of change
Positioning policy
Transferable lessons
Practice theory and climate change policy
Configuring elements of practice
Configuring relations between practices
Configuring careers: carriers and practices
Configuring connections
Practice-oriented policy making
References
Index