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Toward a Theory of Social Practices
A Development in Culturalist Theorizing
Andreas Reckwitz
UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG, GERMANY reckwitz{at}sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de
This article works out the main characteristics of `practice theory', a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others. Practice theory is presented as a conceptual alternative to other forms of social and cultural theory, above all to culturalist mentalism, textualism and intersubjectivism. The article shows how practice theory and the three other cultural-theoretical vocabularies differ in their localization of the social and in their conceptualization of the body, mind, things, knowledge, discourse, structure/process and the agent.
Key Words: action • culture • knowledge • practice • Wittgenstein
European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2,
243-263 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/13684310222225432
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