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Why Practice Does Not Make Perfect: Some Additional Support for Turner‘s Social Theory of Practices

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Fuller, S. Why Practice Does Not Make Perfect: Some Additional Support for Turner‘s Social Theory of Practices. Human Studies 20, 315–323 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005328512357

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