Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories

Part I. Methodologies and Methodological Aspects of Practice Theories

1. Sociology of Social Practices: Theory or Modus Operandi of Empirical Research?
Robert Schmidt

2. Practice Theory as a Package of Theory, Method and Vocabulary: Affordances and Limitations
Davide Nicolini

3. Relationality and Heterogeneity: Transitive Methodology in Practice Theory and Actor-Network Theory
Hilmar Schäfer

4. Conducting Ethnography with a Sensibility for Practice
Michal Sedlačko

Part II. Conceptualisation of the Individual and of the Body in Practice Oriented Empirical Research

5. Embodying Practices: The Human Body as Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought
Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Beck

6. (Re)Configuring Actors in Practice
Anna Pichelstorfer

7. White-Collar Bodywork: Practice Centrism and the Materiality of Knowledge Work
Stefan Laube

8. Personal Metrics: Methodological Considerations of a Praxiographical Approach
Marianne Laet

Part III. Empirical Practice Theory Oriented Case Studies and Methodological Reflections

9. Beyond the Body’s Skin. Describing the Embodiment of Practices
Sophie Merit Müller

10. Making Sense of Noise: Practice Oriented Approach to Sound
Kai Ginkel

11. Combining Methods in Practice Oriented Research
Beate Littig, Michaela Leitner

12. Understanding Everyday Kitchen Life: Looking at Performance, into Performances and for Practices

Lydia Martens, Sue Scott

13. Questioning the ‘Gold Standard’ Thinking in Qualitative Methods from a Practice Theoretical Perspective: Towards Methodological Multiplicity
Bente Halkier

14. Creativity at Work: Methodological Challenges for a Praxeological Research Program
Hannes Krämer

15. How Biologists ‘Meet’
Sarah Maria Schönbauer

16. ‘Mobile Practices’, ‘Mobile Methods’ and Beyond: Studying Railway Mobility Using Lefebvre’s Theory of Space
Silvia Rief

17. Object, Perspectives and Methodology of Praxeological Research
Michael Jonas, Beate Littig, Angela Wroblewski

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