Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories

✍ Scribed by Michael Jonas, Beate Littig, Angela Wroblewski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of methodological issues and empirical methods of practice-oriented research. It examines questions regarding the scope and boundaries of practice-oriented approaches and practice theory. It discusses the potential advantages and disadvantages of the diversity resulting from the use of these approaches, as well as method and methodology-related issues. The specific questions explored in this volume are: What consequences are linked to the application of a praxeological perspective in empirical research when it comes to the choice of methods? Is there such a thing as an ideal path to follow in praxeological empirical research? What relationship is there between qualitative and quantitative approaches? What differentiates practice-based social research from other perspectives and approaches such as discourse analysis or hermeneutics? The contributions in this book discuss these questions either from a methodological point of view or from a reflective perspective on empirical research practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sociology of Social Practices: Theory or Modus Operandi of Empirical Research?....Pages 3-17
Practice Theory as a Package of Theory, Method and Vocabulary: Affordances and Limitations....Pages 19-34
Relationality and Heterogeneity: Transitive Methodology in Practice Theory and Actor-Network Theory....Pages 35-46
Conducting Ethnography with a Sensibility for Practice....Pages 47-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Embodying Practices: The Human Body as Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought....Pages 63-77
(Re)Configuring Actors in Practice....Pages 79-92
White-Collar Bodywork: Practice Centrism and the Materiality of Knowledge Work....Pages 93-105
Personal Metrics: Methodological Considerations of a Praxiographical Approach....Pages 107-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Beyond the Body’s Skin. Describing the Embodiment of Practices....Pages 127-143
Making Sense of Noise: Practice Oriented Approach to Sound....Pages 145-159
Combining Methods in Practice Oriented Research....Pages 161-175
Understanding Everyday Kitchen Life: Looking at Performance, into Performances and for Practices ....Pages 177-191
Questioning the ‘Gold Standard’ Thinking in Qualitative Methods from a Practice Theoretical Perspective: Towards Methodological Multiplicity....Pages 193-204
Creativity at Work: Methodological Challenges for a Praxeological Research Program....Pages 205-219
How Biologists ‘Meet’....Pages 221-234
‘Mobile Practices’, ‘Mobile Methods’ and Beyond: Studying Railway Mobility Using Lefebvre’s Theory of Space....Pages 235-250
Object, Perspectives and Methodology of Praxeological Research....Pages 251-261

✦ Subjects

Methodology of the Social Sciences;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology;Cultural Studies;Knowledge - Discourse