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• Capitalism
  ...but there are still contradictions and inequalities (Schumpeter, 1994). In practice, this means most of the time that the people with money, power, knowledge e Founding father of todays capitalism is [[Karl Marx]] (1818-1883). His theory was about unfairly economic distinctions in society between lower class peo
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• Discourse
  ...guage used in a certain given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, etc. *Jørgensen, M.W. & Phillips, L. (2002). Discourse analysis: as theory and method. Sage, London
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• Dividing practices
  This is a key concept of [[Derek Gregory]] in his postcolonial theory. ...rientalism]] that the representation of the east by the west is a dividing practice which makes spaces outside the west different from and subordinate to the w
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• Duality (of structure)
  ... of [[structure]] and [[agency]]. On opposition of this, the structuration theory argues that social structures are the medium and the outcome of human agenc ...attern of relations between people. These patterns are organized as social practice. So, because of structure rules are placed upon people. An example of this
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• Edward Said
  ...is theory and help to explain his uncertain relationship with contemporary theory" (p.5) ...lonial theory is very well explained by Ashcroft and Ahluwalia (2001): The theory is focussed on investigating "the cultural and political impact of European
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• Everyday creativity
  ... his work ‘The practice of everyday life’ De Certeau (1984) presents a theory on production and [[consumption]] (which includes things like reading and w ... the main contribution of De Certeau to social theory has been “to posit practice as the ground of resistance to domination (in addition to the reproduction
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• Everyday regionalisation
  ...nd act upon as meaningful places or 'regional' entities. In that sense the theory relies very much on constructionism, since meaning of the real world is reg ...ntainers' of human activities, it is suggested to view them as thought-and practice constructs of people for whom, for whatever reason, they come to matter and
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• Felix Guattari
  ...ly. A critique of [[Sigmund Freud]]’s psychoanalysis that focuses on its theory of the Oedipus complex. ...d Freud]]’s interpretation which had many shortcomings in basis analytic practice. It is a functional evaluation of the direct investments of desire in a fie
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• Field
  ...h he uses “to convey the routinized, yet indeterminate, nature of social practice” (Gregory, Johnston, Pratt, Watts & Whatmore, 2009, p. 323). Arnoldi, J. (2001). Niklas Luhmann. An Introduction. In: ''Theory, Culture & Society''. Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-13.
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• Genealogy
  ... total history - ([[total history vs general history]]) - of Foucault. The theory of genealogy uses many different sources and details. Where [[archaeology]] ... the term ‘’discourse’’, Foucault (1991) refers to a rule-governed practice that includes meanings set within a knowledge system as well as institution
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• Kropotkin Peter
  ...esearch on glaciations in Siberia, Sweden and Finland and developed a new theory about the galaciology and the orography of Asia (Blunt & Willis, 2000, p4) ...rested in physical geography, he is also known for the political ideas and theory’s he develops. In this area he was important for the theoretical framewor
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• Max Weber 2
  ...tionship between the historical development of culture (mainly through the practice of Calvinism and Calvinism being the faith over which the political and cul ...osition, functioning and direction of society as a whole. Furthermore, the theory tries to explain how individuals and society interact. The individuals, als
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• Michel Foucault
  ...ng Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) who rejected the existentialism theory. The gap between the existentialism, where the emphasis is on the meaning ...c (No. 49, pp. 3-10), the same also published in "language, counter-memory,practice: selected essays and interviews by Michel Foucault" (1977, Bouchard)
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• Nigel Thrift
  ...: international finance, citities and political life, non-representational theory, affective politics and the history of time. ''Second, I continue to work on what I call nonrepresentational theory, especially by expanding on a set of issues. So far as my interest in time
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• Non-Representational Theory
  ... (Lorimer 2005: 83). Thrift recognises this as he say non-representational theory has become increasingly difficult to pin down since its original inception. Cadman, L. (2009). Nonrepresentational Theory/Nonrepresentational Geographies. Elsevier inc., Glasgow.
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• Observation (vs. experience)
  ...imate knowledge of subjects and their habits, which insiders to a realm of practice might not otherwise reveal or are able to reveal, in contrived situations s ...as one of the most prominent thinkers in the field of Sociological Systems Theory. In this work there are three central theme's:
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• Orientalism
  ...as not an European fantasy of the Orient, but created a body of theory and practice in which there has been a considerable material investment (Gregory et al., Said influenced [[human geography]], with his theory of orientalism, so compelling that even for practitioners of today it is mo
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• Pierre Bourdieu
  ...er]] (Lippuner & Werlen, 2009, p.45). He came came up with the [[theory of practice]]. == Theory of Class Distinction ==
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• Post-structuralism
  ...hy as well as literary and cultural studies. These days the poststructural theory has also his impact within human geography and the other social sciences (G ... making visible their power and creating openings for alternative forms of practice and power to emerge, see [[Post-structuralist strategies]].
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• Power (according to Foucault)
  ...'' in Taylor, S., Wetherell, M. & Yates, S.J. (2001). Discourse Theory and Practice. London: Sage publications.
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