The “Social Science of Practice”: An Introductory Summary and Analysis

The “theory of practice” was developed mainly in order to rise above the common tendency to treat the subjective and the objective as an either/or binary. We might rely mainly on subjective presuppositions to arrive at our scholarly conclusions, or engage only in the compilation and accumulation of...

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Published in:Modern China 2023-07, Vol.49 (4), p.391-407
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