The Concept of ‘Practice’: What’s the Point?

Kjeld Schmidt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_26

The Concept of ‘Practice’: What’s the Point?

Kjeld Schmidt

Department of Organization

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Abstract

The purpose of the present article is to argue that the point of using the concept of ‘practice’ in the context of CSCW and related research areas is to overcome the categorial separation of ‘thinking’ and ‘acting’ that is part and parcel of the received discourse about ‘work’ and thus to be able to focus sharply on and express the unity of the activities of work. The article shows that received concept of ‘practice’ has been developed in the course of centuries precisely as a way to focus on normatively regulated contingent activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	COOP 2014 : Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France)
Editors	Chiara Rossitto, Luigina Ciolfi, David Martin, Bernard Conein
Place of Publication	Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Publication date	2014
Pages	427-444
ISBN (Print)	9783319064970
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319064987
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_26
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	The 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems. COOP 2014 - Nice, France Duration: 27 May 2014 → 30 May 2014 Conference number: 11 http://coop2014.wordpress.com/

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Conference	The 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems. COOP 2014
Number	11
Country/Territory	France
City	Nice
Period	27/05/2014 → 30/05/2014
Internet address	http://coop2014.wordpress.com/

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Schmidt, K 2014, The Concept of ‘Practice’: What’s the Point? in C Rossitto, L Ciolfi, D Martin & B Conein (eds), COOP 2014: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France). Springer Science+Business Media, Heidelberg, pp. 427-444, The 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems. COOP 2014, Nice, France, 27/05/2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_26

The Concept of ‘Practice’: What’s the Point? / Schmidt, Kjeld.
COOP 2014: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France). ed. / Chiara Rossitto; Luigina Ciolfi; David Martin; Bernard Conein. Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media, 2014. p. 427-444.

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