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.

  Autorentext

  Professor Elizabeth Shove teaches Sociology at Lancaster University.

  Inhalt

  The Dynamics of Social Practice
  Introducing Theories of Practice
  Materials and Resources
  Sequence and Structure
  Making and Breaking Links
  Material, Competence and Meaning
  Car-Driving: Elements and Linkages
  Making Links
  Breaking Links
  Elements Between Practices
  Standardization and Diversity
  Individual and Collective Careers
  The Life of Elements
  Modes of Circulation
  Transportation and Access: Material
  Abstraction, Reversal and Migration: Competence
  Association and Classification: Meaning
  Packing and Unpacking
  Emergence, Disappearance and Persistence
  Recruitment, Defection and Reproduction
  First Encounters: Networks and Communities
  Capture and Commitment: Careers and Carriers
  Collapse and Transformation: The Dynamics of Defection
  Daily Paths, Life Paths and Dominant Projects
  Connections Between Practices
  Bundles and Complexes
  Collaboration and Competition
  Selection and Integration
  Coordinating Daily Life
  Circuits of Reproduction
  Monitoring Practices-as-Performances
  Monitoring Practices-as-Entities
  Cross-Referencing Practices-as-Performances
  Cross-Referencing Practices-as-Entities
  Aggregation
  Elements of Coordination
  Intersecting Circuits
  Representing the Dynamics of Social Practice
  Representing Elements and Practices
  Characterizing Circulation
  Competition, Transformation and Convergence
  Reproducing Elements, Practices and Relations between Them
  Time and Practice
  Space and Practice
  Dominant Projects and Power
  Promoting Transitions in Practice
  Climate Change and Behaviour Change
  Basis of Action
  Processes of Change
  Positioning Policy
  Transferable Lessons
  Practice Theory and Climate Change Policy
  Configuring Elements of Practice
  Configuring Relations between Practices
  Configuring Careers: Carriers and Practices
  Configuring Connections
  Practice Oriented Policy Making