What is a Social Practice?

This paper provides an account of social practices that reveals how they are constitutive of social agency, enable coordination around things of value, and are a site for social intervention. The social world, on this account, does not begin when psychologically sophisticated individuals interact to...

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Main Author: Haslanger, Sally (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021-03-23T15:57:02Z.
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