ABSTRACT
Practice theory' was one of the explanations that remained standing after the explanations associated with the various projects were cut down. With practice, the subject of practice theory, one reaches something which purports to be fundamental. Practices as usually understood are not fully articulable or capable of being fully described. In The Social Theory of Practices the author identified two large families of concepts, one including notions like frames, worldviews, and paradigms, and the other including habitus, embodied knowledge, skills, and mores, among other things. The Social Theory of Practices argued against the social or 'shared' solutions to these theoretical problems. The 'cognitive' family employs notions like rule, premise, structure of consciousness, collective representations, tacit knowledge, and so forth that involve close analogies with what can be directly articulated as roles, propositions, and so forth. Classical practice theory and philosophical ethics came at the problem of morality from opposed points of view.
