Social-practice

"Social practice determines the social relations and power structures in a given situation and thereby provides a specific (normative) background for the way interaction will play out in order to ‘place’ the explanation appropriately, and finally how that explanation will be interpreted. Social practice is a product of our actions with respect to each other that often has both social consequences and social presuppositions. The consequences on the one hand and the presuppositions on the other hand speak to the two timescales that constitute a social practice: In terms of consequences, every explaining process re-establishes the relevant social practice; in terms of presuppositions, in turn, the experience of an explaining process will confirm or make a new contribution to our expectations, roles, and partner models in relation to this particular social practice."