The dynamics of social practice : everyday life and how it changes / Elizabeth Shove, Mika Pantzar & Matt Watson.

By:

Shove, Elizabeth, 1959- [aut]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles : Sage, 2012.ISBN:

9780857020437
0857020439

Other title:

Social practice

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DDC classification:

306.3 SHO

Summary: Everyday life is defined and characterized by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. The book provides discussion of real world examples such as the history of car driving and the emergence of frozen food, bringing abstract concepts to life and grounding them in empirical case-studies and new research. Demonstrating the relevance of social theory for public policy problems, the authors show that the everyday is the basis of social transformation.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. In working through core propositions about social practices and how they change the book is clear and accessible; real world examples, including the history of car driving, the emergence of frozen food, and the fate of hula hooping, bring abstract concepts to life and firmly ground them in empirical case-studies and new research. Demonstrating the relevance of social theory for public policy problems, the authors show that the everyday is the basis of social transformation addressing questions such as: how do practices emerge, exist and die? what are the elements from which practices are made? how do practices recruit practitioners? how are elements, practices and the links between them generated, renewed and reproduced?

Precise, relevant and persuasive this book will inspire students and researchers from across the social sciences.

Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Mika Pantzar is Research Professor at the National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki. Matt Watson is Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at University of Sheffield.

Everyday life is defined and characterized by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. The book provides discussion of real world examples such as the history of car driving and the emergence of frozen food, bringing abstract concepts to life and grounding them in empirical case-studies and new research. Demonstrating the relevance of social theory for public policy problems, the authors show that the everyday is the basis of social transformation.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of figures and table (p. ix)
About the authors (p. xi)
Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
1 The Dynamics of Social Practice (p. 1)
Introducing theories of practice (p. 4)
Materials and resources (p. 8)
Sequence and structure (p. 13)
2 Making and Breaking Links (p. 21)
Material, competence and meaning (p. 22)
Car-driving - elements and linkages (p. 26)
Making links (p. 29)
Breaking links (p. 33)
Elements between practices (p. 35)
Standardization and diversity (p. 37)
Individual and collective careers (p. 39)
3 The Life of Elements (p. 43)
Modes of circulation (p. 44)
Transportation and access: material (p. 45)
Abstraction, reversal and migration: competence (p. 48)
Association and classification: meaning (p. 53)
Packing and unpacking (p. 56)
Emergence, disappearance and persistence (p. 57)
4 Recruitment, Defection and Reproduction (p. 63)
First encounters: networks and communities (p. 66)
Capture and commitment: careers and carriers (p. 69)
Collapse and transformation: the dynamics of defection (p. 74)
Daily paths, life paths and dominant projects (p. 77)
5 Connections Between Practices (p. 81)
Bundles and complexes (p. 84)
Collaboration and competition (p. 87)
Selection and integration (p. 91)
Coordinating daily life (p. 94)
6 Circuits of Reproduction (p. 97)
Monitoring practices-as-performances (p. 99)
Monitoring practices-as-entities (p. 101)
Cross-referencing practices-as-performances (p. 105)
Cross-referencing practices-as-entities (p. 109)
Aggregation (p. 110)
Elements of coordination (p. 112)
Intersecting circuits (p. 114)
7 Representing the Dynamics of Social Practice (p. 119)
Representing elements and practices (p. 120)
Characterizing circulation (p. 122)
Competition, transformation and convergence (p. 124)
Reproducing elements, practices and relations between them (p. 125)
Time and practice (p. 127)
Space and practice (p. 130)
Dominant projects and power (p. 134)
8 Promoting Transitions in Practice (p. 139)
Climate change and behaviour change (p. 140)
Basis of action (p. 143)
Processes of change (p. 144)
Positioning policy (p. 144)
Transferable lessons (p. 145)
Practice theory and climate change policy (p. 146)
Configuring elements of practice (p. 147)
Configuring relations between practices (p. 152)
Configuring careers: carriers and practices (p. 156)
Configuring connections (p. 160)
Practice-oriented policy making (p. 162)
References (p. 165)
Index (p. 183)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University
Mika Pantzar is Research Professor at the National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki
Matt Watson is Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at University of Sheffield