Practice theory, work, and organization : an introduction / / Davide Nicolini

• Autore: Nicolini Davide
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.35; 360.72
• Soggetto topico: Organizational sociology; Social sciences
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is new? The affordance of practice theories; 1.2 There is no such a thing as a unified practice theory; 1.3 Practice theories and the study of work and organization; 1.3.1 Returning to practice: a weak and strong programme?; 1.4 The content and structure of the book; 1.5 The rolling case study; 1.5.1 What is telemedicine?; 1.5.2 What is chronic heart failure?; 1.5.3 Telemonitoring at Garibaldi; 1.6 Words of thanks; 2 Praxis and Practice Theory: A Brief Historical Overview ; 2.1 The legacy of Greek classical thought and the demotion of practice in the Western tradition2.1.1 Plato's intellectualist legacy; 2.1.2 Aristotle on praxis; 2.2 The demotion of practice in the Western tradition; 2.3 The rediscovery of practice: Marx, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein; 2.3.1 Marx; 2.3.2 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the primacy of practice in the phenomenological tradition; 2.3.3 Wittgenstein: intelligibility as practice; 2.3.4 The return of practice in contemporary social thought; 3 Praxeology and the Work of Giddens and Bourdieu ; 3.1 Giddens: practice as the basic domain of study of the social sciences3.1.1 Giddens' view of practice; 3.1.2 Giddens at work; 3.2 Bourdieu's praxeology: an overview; 3.2.1 On habitus; 3.2.2 How habitus produces practice; 3.2.3 Theorizing practice; 3.2.4 Bourdieu's praxeology and the study of work and organization; Rolling case study: Telemedicine and the nursing habitus; 4 Practice as Tradition and Community; 4.1 Practice, tradition, and learning; 4.2 Practice and community; 4.3 Withdrawing the phrase 'community of practice'? ; Rolling case study: Becoming part of the practice of telemedicine5 Practice as Activity; 5.1 The Marxian roots of cultural historical activity theory; 5.2 The central tenets of cultural and historical activity theory; 5.2.1 The central role of mediation; 5.2.2 The activity system as the basic unit of analysis; 5.2.3 There is no such a thing as an object-less activity; 5.2.4 The confiictual and expanding nature of activity systems; 5.2.5 The interventionist nature of CHAT; 5.3 The weaknesses of a strong theory; Rolling case study: Telemedicine as an activity system ; 6 Practice as Accomplishment6.1 Ethno-methodology's view of everyday activity; 6.1.1 Accountability; 6.1.2 Reflexivity; 6.1.3 Indexicality; 6.1.4 Membership; 6.2 The implication of ethno-methodology for the study of (work) practices; 6.3 The new generation of EM-oriented studies of work and organization; 6.4 An unfinished task; Rolling case study: Accomplishing monitoring; 7 Practice as the House of the Social: Contemporary Developments of the Heideggerian and Wittgensteinian Traditions; 7.1 Why people do what they do?; 7.2 Practices and their organization; 7.3 Practices and materials ; 7.4 How practices constitute action, sociality, the world, and themselves
• Sommario/riassunto: What is practice theory? Where do practice theories come from? What do they say? Do they really offer something new to the study of work and organization? In setting out to answer these questions, this book provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to contemporary theories of practice, discussing their distinctive contribution to work and organization studies. Practice theories are a set of conceptual tools and methodologies for investigating, analysing, and representing everyday practice through written text, language, images, and behaviour. Drawing on a variety of theoretical tradition
• Titolo autorizzato: Practice theory, work, and organization
• ISBN: 1-283-83490-1; 0-19-164462-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815410903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II