Theodore R. Schatzki (USA University of Kentucky)

Social Change in a Material World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the authorâ s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of significant differences in bundles of practices and material arrangements.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780367144531
• ISBN-10: 0367144530
• Artikelnr.: 56742863

Autorenporträt

Theodore R. Schatzki is Professor of Geography, and of Philosophy and Sociology, at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is the author of Social Practices, The Site of the Social, Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space, and The Timespace of Human Activity. He is also co-editor of, among other works, The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, The Nexus of Practices, and Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. On Changes, Events, and Processes
2. The Practice Plenum
3.The Material Dimension of Social Life
4. Social Dynamics I: Chains of Activity
5. Social Dynamics II: Material Events and Processes
6. Explaining Social Changes
7. Dealing with Complexity: Overviews
8. Challenging Social Theoretical Stalwarts