Project Details

Description

The scientific focus of the activities is to explore the potentials at the crossing point
between American pragmatism and practice theory to develop social science
research and research in the humanities to better understand practical activity
conceptually and theoretically, and to explore methodological research strategies
for studying human activity as it unfolds in everyday practical settings. The
research area comprises central topics of social theorizing: social ontology, agency,
structure, individualism vs. holism, explanatory strategies of activity, normativity,
(moral) accountability, methodology and more.
An important focus of the research is the exploration and potential development of
pragmatism and practice theory. Although each of these intellectual traditions have
been influential in contemporary social science research, their interrelatedness,
commonalities and points of difference have remained relatively unexplored. By
bringing pragmatism and practice theory in dialogue over the nature of action and
human activity the network aims to advance social theory within the social sciences
and humanities and provide new theoretical and methodological frameworks for the
social theorizing – and, eventually, empirical research.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date02/01/201722/12/2017

Collaborative partners

  • University of Kentucky
  • Wesleyan University
  • Bates College
  • Georgetown University
  • University of Colorado Denver
  • Purdue University, Lafayette
  • Coleby College
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • Florida Atlantic University

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  • Routledge (Publisher)

    Buch, A. (Editor) & Schatzki, T. (Editor)

    2018

    Activity: Editorial work and peer reviewEditor of unfinished research anthology/collectionResearch

  • Talks on Action, Agency, and (Post)humanism

    Buch, A. (Organizer), Schatzki, T. (Participant) & Rouse, J. (Participant)

    11 Sept 2017

    Activity: Attending an eventOrganisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar

    File
  • Action as Crossing Point for Primacies of the Practical

    Buch, A. (Organizer), Schatzki, T. (Organizer), Shusterman, R. M. (Participant), Okrent, M. (Participant), Baert, P. (Participant), Rouse, J. (Participant), Hildebrand, D. (Participant), Emirbayer, M. (Participant), Gross, N. (Participant), Siegfried, C. (Participant), Gimmler, A. (Participant) & Blattner, W. (Participant)

    8 Sept 201710 Sept 2017

    Activity: Attending an eventConference organisation or participation

  • What's New? Temporality in Practice Theory and Pragmatism

    Buch, A. & Stjerne, I. S., 26 Jul 2018, How Organizations Manage the Future: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights. Krämer, H. & Wenzel, M. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-66

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    2 Citations (Scopus)