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Virtues and Practices

9 January, 2015 - 09:41
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Virtues are dispositions that bring about the internal and external goods around which a social or professional practice is built. Constituents of a Practice

  • Participants: Formed of individuals whose activities, attitudes, and goals are integrated, shared, or overlap in significant ways
  • Rules and Procedures: Participants occupy roles which outline tasks and procedures. Roles in a practice are coordinated so that they combine to bring about complex ends beyond the capabilities of isolated individuals
  • Boundaries: Boundaries such as disciplinary and theoretical principles surround practices and serve to distinguish one from the other
  • External Goals: Engineering serves public wellbeing. Medicine health. Law justice. Business commerce.
  • Internal Goals: Engineering has the internal goals of faithful agency (to client), collegiality (to peers), and loyalty (to the profession or practice itself)