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 +Practices are routinised behaviours that depend on materials, competences, and meanings attached to specific acitivites.
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-Practices can be understood as situated patterns of action organised around shared, yet malleable, practical understandings in time and space. They transcend individual action by definition but are conceptually rooted in assumptions about agency.((Möllering, G., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2018). Direction, not destination: Institutional work practices in the face of field-level uncertainty. //European Management Journal//, 36(1), 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2017.10.004))+Practices are situated patterns of action that transcend individual action.((Möllering, G., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2018). Direction, not destination: Institutional work practices in the face of field-level uncertainty. //European Management Journal//, 36(1), 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2017.10.004))
  
-A more developed account from practice theory treats practices as routinised types of behaviour consisting of several interconnected elements: forms of bodily activity, forms of mental activity, things and their use, background knowledge, know-how, states of emotion, and motivational knowledge.((Reckwitz, A. (2002). Toward a theory of social practices: A development in culturalist theorizing. //European Journal of Social Theory//, 5(2), 243–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310222225432)) On this reading, practices are the primary unit of social analysis — neither individual behaviour nor social structure, but the shared, repeated performances that connect them.+Practice theory treats practices as routinised types of behaviour consisting of several interconnected elements: forms of bodily activity, forms of mental activity, things and their use, background knowledge, know-how, states of emotion, and motivational knowledge.((Reckwitz, A. (2002). Toward a theory of social practices: A development in culturalist theorizing. //European Journal of Social Theory//, 5(2), 243–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310222225432)) On this reading, practices are the primary unit of social analysis — neither individual behaviour nor social structure, but the shared, repeated performances that connect them.
  
 The distinction between behaviour and practice matters for energy policy. Behaviour-change approaches target individual attitudes and choices, assuming that information provision or price signals will shift what people do. Practice-oriented approaches focus instead on the social, material, and infrastructural arrangements that make certain ways of doing things normal, easy, and expected — and others difficult or inconceivable. Shove (2010) argues that energy demand is better understood as the product of ordinary social practices than as the aggregated outcome of individual decisions, and that effective policy must engage with how practices change rather than simply trying to shift individual behaviour.((Shove, E. (2010). Beyond the ABC: Climate change policy and theories of social change. //Environment and Planning A//, 42(6), 1273–1285. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42282)) The distinction between behaviour and practice matters for energy policy. Behaviour-change approaches target individual attitudes and choices, assuming that information provision or price signals will shift what people do. Practice-oriented approaches focus instead on the social, material, and infrastructural arrangements that make certain ways of doing things normal, easy, and expected — and others difficult or inconceivable. Shove (2010) argues that energy demand is better understood as the product of ordinary social practices than as the aggregated outcome of individual decisions, and that effective policy must engage with how practices change rather than simply trying to shift individual behaviour.((Shove, E. (2010). Beyond the ABC: Climate change policy and theories of social change. //Environment and Planning A//, 42(6), 1273–1285. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42282))