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Title Orders of ordinary action : respecifying sociological knowledge / edited by Stephen Hester, David Francis
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Series Directions in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
Directions in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
Contents Analysing orders of ordinary action / Stephan Hester, David Francis -- Four relations between literatures of the social scientific movement and their specific ethnomethodological alternatives / Harold Garfinkel -- The technical operations of levers of power / Wes Sharrock, Graham Buttom -- Operating together through videoconference: members' procedures for accomplishing a common space of action / Lorenza Mondada -- Doctors' practical management of knowledge in the daily case conference / Nozomi Ikeya, Mitsuhiro Okada -- Auspices of corpus status: bibliography as a phenomenon of respecification / Andrew P. Carlin -- Law courts as perspicuous sites for ethnomethodological investigations / Michael Lynch -- Circumstances of reasoning in the natural sciences / Eric Livingston -- Expert system technology in work practice: a report on service technicians and machine diagnosis / Erik Vinkhuyzen, Jack Whalen -- Thinking as a public activity: the local order of a Tibetan philosophical debate / Kenneth Liberman -- Cultures of reading: on professional vision and the lived work of mammography / Roger Slack [and others] --The 'problem of dust': forensic investigation as practical action / Robin Williams
Summary The theme of this book is how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities. Much of the book comprises original research by leading scholars in the field
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnomethodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnomethodology
Soziologie
Ethnomethodologie
Form Electronic book
Author Francis, D. W
Hester, Stephen
ISBN 9780754688518
0754688518
1317085205
9781317085201
1281208817
9781281208811
9786611208813
661120881X