Publication:

Implementing, Embedding, and Integrating Practices: An Outline of Normalization Process Theory (2009)

Author(s): May C; Finch T

    Abstract: Understanding the processes by which practices become routinely embedded in everyday life is a longstanding concern of sociology and the other social sciences. It has important applied relevance in understanding and evaluating the implementation of material practices across a range of settings. This paper sets out a theory of normalization processes that proposes a working model of implementation, embedding and integration in conditions marked by complexity and emergence. The theory focuses on the work of embedding and of sustaining practices within interaction chains, and helps in understanding why some processes seem to lead to a practice becoming normalized while others do not

      • Date: 01-06-2009
      • Journal: Sociology
      • Volume: 43
      • Issue: 3
      • Pages: 535-554
      • Publisher: Sage
      • Publication type: Article
      • Bibliographic status: Published

      Keywords: sociology, normalisation process theory, implementation, integration, embedding, normalisation process, normalization process model, diffusion of innovations, theory of planned behavaior

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      Dr Tracy Finch
      Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Health Care