1st Edition

Social Change in a Material World

By Theodore R. Schatzki Copyright 2019
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’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. Illustrated with examples... Read more

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

Biography

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.