Searching for Practices: Epistemo-methodological Contributions of Practice Theory to Social Management Studies

• Autor(a) principal: de Paiva, André Luiz
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Alcântara, Valderí de Castro, Cruz, Elaine Santos Teixeira, Andrade, Luis Fernando Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Administração Pública e Gestão Social
• DOI: 10.21118/apgs.v0i0.5172
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufv.br/apgs/article/view/5172
• topic: Gestão Social como Prática; Virada Prática; Práxis; Gestão Pública

This work explores how the perspective of strategy as practice contributes to the understanding of ‘social management practices’ and ‘social management as practice’ in their constitutive relationships with practitioners, praxis and contexts in which they are embedded. We seek the contributions of theoretical approaches marked by the practice turn, especially by its reception in the field of management sciences from the studies of strategy as practice. The focus on practices will enable the field to concentrate more on the daily processes of organizing, on organizational practices and on the understanding of practices as fundamental for social analysis. Thus, strategy as practice contributes starting from the notion that social management is an activity shared by the subjects involved (practitioners) that articulates different practices and praxis, the latter understood as a reflexive activity. This article draws the attention to the studies of social management practices and to the understanding of social management as a practice. Keywords: Social Management as Practice; Practice Turn; Practitioners; Praxis.