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Dear colleagues
We are thinking about putting together a proposal for a symposium at this year's BSA Medical Sociology conference around practice theory, building on discussions following individual papers last year. We would like to draw together a small set of papers to reflect on different theories of practice in a more focussed event within the conference. We have drafted a provisional abstract, which is below.
Are you planning to go to medsoc? Does your work address or draw on social practice or practice theory? If so, would you be interested in being part of this proposal?
At this stage we would like to gauge interest in participating in such an event. If you are interested, please could you let us know before 4th April. If it comes together, we would need to submit a full set of abstracts together by the deadline on 13th April.
We would welcome contributions from researchers at all career stages, including doctoral researchers
Best wishes
Kate Weiner ([log in to unmask])
Catherine Will ([log in to unmask])
PRACTICE THEORY SYMPOSIUM PROPOSAL FOR BSA MEDSOC 2018
This event would seek to stimulate discussion and debate on the possible contributions of practice theory to studies of studies of health and illness. We would like to hear from people working within this approach or others interested in theories of practice who might offer more critical or detached responses.
‘Practice theory’ originated in environmental sociology (Shove, Pantzar and Watson 2012) though it draws on a much longer tradition of theories of social practice and socio-material analysis. It is becoming recognised and celebrated by some in the public health field including scholars working closely with policy (Blue et al 2016, Kelly 2017). Here it offers a way to shift the focus from the individual blamed for poor lifestyle choices to shared practices and to develop more effective interventions that can respond to issues traditionally conceptualised through the lens of social structure or structural determinants of health (Maller 2015). Theoretically, practice theory may of course also offer a way to account for social stability as well as produce change, and encourages sociological attention to meaning, competences and materiality, rather than any single aspect of social life. However the approach has been subject to some critical responses. We seek to engage the medical sociology community in a lively and productive conversation about these critiques and ways forward in the study of practice.
Questions to be addressed with reference to individual papers and by discussants would include:
How well does practice theory address health inequalities?
How do such theories of practice relate to sociological understandings of social groups including the family, peer groups, communities or groups defined according to age, ethnicity, gender, class and their intersections?
What is gained from applying practice theory to professional practices as well as more domestic activities?
What kind of theory is this, what is it useful for and where are the lacunae in its current elaborations?
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