1st Edition
Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology The Prospect of an Alternate and Adequate Sociology
By Graham Button
Copyright 2026
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences. Although commonly run together under the title of EMCA, what their relationship is to one another remains as elusive as the relationship between their respective founders, Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks.
This book clarifies the nature of these relationships, demonstrating... Read more
Introduction Part One: On Sacks 1. Sacks and Ethnomethodology 2. Sacks and Sociology Part Two: On Ethnomethodology 3. “False Friends” 4. Potential Confusions in Ethnomethodological Part Three: On Adequacy 5. Garfinkel and the Adequacy of Ethnomethodological Description 6. Sacks on Sociology as a “Natural Observational Science" Conclusion
Biography
Graham Button is former Professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is co-author, with Michael Lynch and Wes Sharrock, of Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and Constructive Analysis: On Formal Structures of Practical Action.
