Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories

Chapter 1. Introduction; Michael Jonas, Beate Littig and Angela Wroblewski.- Part I. Methodologies and Methodological Aspects of Practice Theories.- Chapter 2. Sociology of Social Practices: Theory or Modus Operandi of Empirical Research; Robert Schmidt.- Chapter 3. Practice Theory as a Package of Theory, Methods and Vocabulary: Affordances and Limitations; Davide Nicolini.- Chapter 4. Relationality and Heterogeneity: Transitive Methodology in Practice Theory and Actor-Network Theory; Hilmar Schafer.- Chapter 5. Conducting Ethnography with a Sensibility for Practice; Michal Sedlacko.- Part II. Conceptualisation of the Individual and of the Body in Practice-Oriented Empirical Research.- Chapter 6. Embodying Practices: The Human Body as a Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought; Jorg Niewohner and Stefan Beck (+).- Chapter 7. (Re)configuring Actors in Practice; Anna Pichelstorfer.- Chapter 8. White-Collar Bodywork: Practice Centrism and the Materiality of Knowledge Work; Stefan Laube.- Chapter 9. Personal Metrics: Methodological Considerations of a Praxiographical Approach; Marianne de Laet.- Part III. Empirical Practice Theory Oriented Case Studies.- Chapter 10. Beyond the Body's Skin. Describing the Embodiment of Practices; Sophie Merit Muller.- Chapter 11. Making Sense of Noise: Practice-oriented Approach to Sound; Kai Ginkel.- Chapter 12. Combining Methods in Practice-Oriented Research; Beate Littig and Michaela Leitner.- Chapter 13. Understanding Everyday Kitchen Life: Looking of at Performances, into Performances and for Practices; Lydia Martens and Sue Scott.- Chapter 14. Questioning the 'Gold Standard' Thinking in Qualitative Methods from a Practice Theoretical Perspective: Towards Methodological Multiplicity; Bente Halkier.- Chapter 15. Creativity at Work: Methodological Challenges for a Praxeological Research Program; Hannes Kramer.- Chapter 16. How Biologists 'Meet'; Sarah Maria Schonbauer.- Chapter 17. 'Mobile Practices', 'Mobile Methods' and Beyond: Studying Railway Mobility Using Lefebvre's Theory of Space; Silvia Rief.- Chapter 18. Object, Perspectives and Methodology of Praxeological Research; Michael Jonas, Beate Littig, Angela Wroblewski.