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Turner's The Social Theory of Practices effectively criticized conceptions of social practices as rule-governed or regularity-exhibiting performances. Turner's criticisms nevertheless overlook an alternative, "normative" conception of practices as constituted by the mutual accountability of their performances. Such a conception of practices also allows a more adequate understanding of normativity in terms of accountability to what is at issue and at stake in a practice. We can thereby understand linguistic practice and normative authority without having to posit stable meanings, rules, norms, or presuppositions underlying the manifest diversity of social life.

Gaming practice is today the cutting edge of the formation of the future society, the period of global digital transformation of which can be fixed by the moment of total public involvement in digital reality in 2016, when augmented digital reality was massively introduced. Thus, completing the period of post-post-modernity, the expression of which was a person who is at a loss, and not in front of the "brave new world", but in front of the elusive old one. To date, the grounds for forecasts have been accumulated, the way for which, the authors of the presented article will try to open with this material.The authors argue that the most striking manifestations of the effects of digitalization affecting social reality hide the totality of their influence on many aspects of everyday life. The hidden restructuring of social practices that comes with every multiplayer game released comes through the game world of involved players and business structures that use the psychological, tactical, strategic achievements of the developers for their own commercial purposes. Will the gamification of social practices become a new "bottleneck" for civilization or will we be able to integrate a humanitarian approach and humanistic expertise into strategic control centers for the development of digital technologies.

This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology.This fourth edition now includes:new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinemafilm theory's discussion of the represen

The Constitution of Social Practices- Front Cover -- The Constitution of Social Practices -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- 1 A "cultural" approach to social science -- 2 Practice theory today -- 3 Core ontological commitments -- 4 Sketch of the argument -- 5 Of philosophy and social science -- Chapter 1: What are practices? -- 1 Actions under a description -- 2 Looping effects -- 3 Historical constitution -- Chapter 2: Knowledge -- 1 Knowledgeable practices -- 2 Conceptualising knowledge -- Chapter 3: Retroactive redescription -- 1 The validity of retroactive redescription -- 2 The effects of retroactive redescription -- 3 Functional concepts and typological classification -- 4 What is at stake? -- Chapter 4: Identification and context -- 1 Identifying practices "in all their specificity" -- 2 Relations and relational properties -- 3 Criteria of identification -- Chapter 5: Specificity and generalisation -- 1 Functions -- 2 Implications for generalisation, explanation and description -- 3 Patchwork holism -- Chapter 6: Possibility and capacities -- 1 Possibility -- 2 Capacities -- Chapter 7: Constitutive relations and constitutive theory -- 1 Constitutive theory -- 2 Constitutive relations -- 3 Stability and change -- Conclusion -- 1 Culture and action in the social sciences -- 2 Some benefits of studying practices -- Works cited -- Index.

Majority rule is an essential element of the institution of democratic government. In three steps, I will explore the conditions of its acceptance as a mechanism of pure procedural legitimacy. Starting from H.L.A. Hart's analysis of the concept 'rule', I will argue that the validating conditions of rules are not normativ beliefs or reasons, but essentially social patterns of conduct and reasoning that manifest themselves in political agency and discourse. Secondly, I will outline a normative rationale that defends majority rule as a source of genuinely 'political' legitimacy under conditions of social pluralism. Finally, I will explain why majority rule's legitimating potential requires that political agency and discourse accept the separation of the political sphere from private spheres.

"This collection of works by critical sociologists of various nationalities focuses on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists and others, these studies grapple with diverse forms of organized resistance in the 21st century. From homeless peoples displaced by Hurricane Katrina to young Muslim women refusing to shun their veils in French schools, the logic of a new generation of protest is deciphered with an eye to learning from as well as informing new social forces demanding progressive change. The result is an affirmation of the continuing relevance of critical sociology in analyzing key social contradictions in the United States, Mexico, and beyond"--P. [4] of cover

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Collective Intentionality and Social Practices -- Joint and Individual Intentionality: A Genetic, Phenomenological Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Those Prioritizing Individual Intentionality Over Joint Intentionality -- 3 The Irreducibility and Priority of We-Intentionality -- 4 Beneath Theory: The Genetic Origins of Collective Intentionality -- 5 Genetic Origins: Social and Individual Intentionality in Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Collective Phronesis? An Investigation of Collective Judgement and Professional Action -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Action and Practical Knowledge -- 3 Different Understandings of Collective Action -- 4 A Night Shift -- 5 Collective Phronesis? -- 6 Concluding Reflection -- References -- From Searle's Speech Acts to Smith's Truth-Makers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Meaning -- 3 Truth Makers -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Science, Ethics and Social Practices -- The Biological Logic of Human Action: On the (Considerable) Difference Between "Rational" and "Adaptive" -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Rationalist Assumption -- 2 The Unlikely Evolution, and Dubious Adaptive Value, of Rationality -- 2.1 Biology's Blunt Tool -- 2.2 Rationality Is Orthogonal to Survival -- 2.3 Fitness Is Irreduceable to Survival -- 3 The Biological Logic of Human Action -- 3.1 Fulfilling the (Real) Tasks of Fitness -- 3.2 The Evolvability of Sociality -- 3.3 Elements of a Biological Logic of Human Action -- 4 Conclusion and Implications -- 4.1 Homo Duplex -- 4.2 Rationality as a Dependent Variable -- 4.3 A Systematics of Social Actors -- 4.4 Democratic Institutions-Weaponized Tribalism -- References -- Social Media: "Surrogate Tribes"? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Emergent Properties of Our Neural-Hormonal System -- 2.1 The Senses -- 2.2 Hedonistic Tones -- 2.3 Reflexes and Instincts.