Elizabeth Shove & Mika Pantzar 
The Dynamics of Social Practice [EPUB ebook] 
Everyday Life and how it Changes

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.

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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

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Dr Matt Watson is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.