1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology

434 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

434 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing issues and developments in the field of ethnomethodology, including ethnomethodological conversation analysis, and highlights new and emerging areas for research. With truly authoritative coverage of the state of the art, including current debates, methodological issues, emerging topics for inquiry, new perspectives on established... Read more

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

Preface: On the Pedagogy of Ethnomethodology

Acknowledgements

 

1. Ethnomethodology and Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis: An Orientation to Studies
K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Andrew P. Carlin, Michael Mair, Alex Dennis

 

 

Section I

Contexts and New Resources for Ethnomethodology

 

Editorial Section One: Contexts and New Resources for Ethnomethodology
Andrew P. Carlin

 

2. Ethnomethodology
Michael Lynch

 

3. Conversation Analysis
Kang Kwong Luke

 

4. Ways of Working in the Harold Garfinkel Archive
Anne W. Rawls and Jason Turowetz

 

5. Sacks and Garfinkel: On Ethnomethodological and Sociological Inquiry
Richard Fitzgerald

 

6. Egon Bittner’s Place in Ethnomethodology
Albert J. Meehan

 

7. The Emergence of Ethnomethodology as a Collaborative Accomplishment
Andrew P. Carlin, Rod Watson and Sheena Murdoch

 

 

Section II

Theoretical Orientations

Editorial Section II: Ethnomethodological Readings of Philosophy, Social Theory and the Social Sciences
Michael Mair

 

8. Alfred Schütz, Aron Gurwitsch, and Harold Garfinkel. The Phenomenological Origins of Ethnomethodology
Christian Meyer

 

9. Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty
Kenneth Liberman

 

10. The Documentary Method of Interpretation, Reflexivity, and Indexicality
Alex Dennis

 

11. Accounts
Lena Jayyusi

 

12. Respecification: Of Epistopics, Epistemics, the Particle “Oh,” and/or Other Puzzles
Philippe Sormani

 

13. Instructed Action as Non-Foundationalist Foundations
Dušan Bjelić

 

14. Wittgenstein and Winch
Phil Hutchinson and Wes Sharrock

 

 

Section III

Study Approaches

Editorial Section III: Study Approaches
Oskar Lindwall

 

15. EMCA’s Phenomena of Study: A Brief Lexicon
Douglas Macbeth

 

16. Ethnomethodological Ethnography
Yaël Kreplak and Julia Velkovska

 

17. The Unique Adequacy Requirement of Methods
Phillip Brooker

 

18. Membership Categorisation Analysis
Robin James Smith

 

19. Sequential Analysis
Aug Nishizaka and Kaoru Hayano

 

20. The Development of Video Analysis: The Work of Charles Goodwin, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, and Christian Heath
Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Asta Cekaite

 

21. Transcription
Lorenza Mondada

 

 

Section IV

Lay and Professional Analysis

Editorial Section IV: Lay and Professional Analysis
Alex Dennis

 

22. Instructed Action and the Thorny Problems of Actor Knowledge
Timothy Koschmann

 

23. Instructed Action, in and as Ethnomethodology
Wendy Sherman Heckler

 

24. Lay and Professional Inquiry: Multimodal Analysis
Andrew P. Carlin, Roger S. Slack, Ricardo Moutinho

 

25. The Temporality of Social Phenomena
Richard H. R. Harper

 

26. Ordinary Activities
Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield

 

27. Hybrid Studies
Nozomi Ikeya

 

 

Section V

Areas of Application

Editorial Section V: On the Editorial Practices of (Re-)Presenting and Curating Ethnomethodological Studies
K. Neil Jenkings

 

28. Family
Sara Keel

 

29. Education
Hansun Zhang Waring

 

30. Doing Ethnomethodology and Sport
John Hockey

 

31. Medicine and Healthcare
Alison Pilnick

 

32. Science
Janet Vertesi

 

33. Ethnomethodology and Organisation Studies
Jon Hindmarsh and Nick Llewellyn

 

34. The Ethnomethods of Law and Order: Studying Cops and Courts
Patrick G. Watson

 

Index

Biography

Andrew P. Carlin teaches Library & Information Management at the School of Education, Ulster University, Coleraine (UK). His areas of interest include ethnomethodology and information. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. 0000-0001-5138-9384

Alex Dennis is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Magic, Science and Society (Routledge), and co-editor of two special journal issues on ethnography and ethnomethodology. ORCID number 0000-0003-4625-1123

K. Neil Jenkings is a senior researcher at Newcastle University, UK. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on various social phenomena including health service organisation and decision-making practices, military and society, and rock-climbing. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. Orcid: 0000-0003-3513-2823

Oskar Lindwall is a Professor in Communication at the Department of Applied IT, Gothenburg University. His research focuses on instructed actions, embodied skills, and the competent production of social worlds. 0000-0001-6082-4990

Michael Mair is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool/ Senior Fellow UK National Centre for Research Methods. He is an ethnomethodologist whose work focuses on the politics of accountability in and across different settings as well as methodological practice in the social and natural sciences, including qualitative, quantitative and digital methods as well as experimentation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. 0000-0003-0929-5426