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A population is constituted not by a set of individuals with something in common but a by a set of practices common to particular situations or events: the crowd at the coffee machine, the line at the supermarket, the ‘gang’ at the science lab, and so on. (Rawls, in Garfinkel 2002: 60)

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Roth, WM. (2013). The Actor’s Point of View. In: What More in/for Science Education. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-254-9_8

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