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communities of practice
Being alive as human beings means that we are constantly
engaged in the pursuit of enterprises of all kinds, from ensuring our
physical survival to seeking the most lofty pleasures. As we define these
enterprises and engage in their pursuit together, we interact with each
other and with the world and we tune our relations with each other and with
the world accordingly. In other words we learn.
Over time, this collective learning results in practices
that reflect both the pursuit of our enterprises and the attendant social
relations. These practices are thus the property of a kind of
community
created over time by the sustained pursuit of a shared enterprise. It makes
sense, therefore to call these kinds of communities communities of
practice. (Wenger 1998: 45)
the question of social movements
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