Abstract

PETERS, Gabriel. The Praxeological Turn. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2020, n.123, pp.167-188. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.11308.

The article examines the “praxeological turn” within the social sciences in the second half of the 20th century, a turn which is manifest in theories that, despite their disagreements over diverse questions, are all anchored in a processual ontology that apprehends the social world as a domain of practices. Focusing on the resemblances rather than on the differences between varied branches of praxeology, the article offers an ideal-typical account of the praxeological turn in social theory. Starting with its philosophical sources in existential phenomenology and in the pragmatics of language, the text deals with seven postulates shared by the praxeological theories of authors, such as Giddens, Garfinkel, Taylor, Bourdieu and Latour. As “internal turns” combined within praxeology, those postulates include the existential, the cultural, the habitual, the bodily, the objectal, the intersubjectivist and the multidimensional turns.

Keywords : Anthony Giddens; culturalism; Pierre Bourdieu; praxeology; social theory.

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