Stephen G Turner

The Cambridge Companion to Weber (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Former owner's name on rear of front cover. "Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical processes of 'rationalization'. But, like his great forebear...

Understanding the Tacit

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdie...

Explaining the Normative

Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed to thi...

Other People's Country: Law, Water and Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites

Other People’s Country thinks through the entangled objects of law – legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on – that ‘govern’ waters and that make bodies of water ‘lawful’ within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political eco...

The Politics of Expertise

This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distributi...

American Sociology: From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal (Sociology Transformed)

American Sociology has changed radically since 1945, when the field was dominated by young lions attempting to make sociology a science. The 1968 student revolt ended much of this, leaving sociology divided and directionless. By the 1980s, enrolments had fallen and departments were closing. But soci...

The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions

The concept of "practices"—whether of representation, of political or scientific traditions, or of organizational culture—is central to social theory. In this book, Stephen Turner presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditio...

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences collects newly commissioned essays that examine fundamental issues in the social sciences.

The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions

The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions

Brains, Practices, Relativism: Social Theory After Cognitive Science

Brains, Practices, Relativism: Social Theory After Cognitive Science

The Cambridge Companion to Weber

The Design of Organic Syntheses

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The Social Theory of Practices : Tradition, Tacit Knowledge and Presuppositions