Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511611827

Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them. This book reappraises the significance of ethnomethodology in sociology in particular, and in the human sciences in general. It demonstrates how, through its empirical enquiries into the ordered properties of social action, ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood. The chapters, by leading scholars, take up the specification of action and order in theorising, logic, epistemology, measurement, evidence, the social actor, cognition, language and culture, and moral judgement, and underscore the ramifications for the human sciences of the ethnomethodologist's approach. This is a systematic and coherent collection which explicitly addresses fundamental conceptual issues. The clear exposition of the central tenets of ethnomethodology is especially welcome.

"These essays furnish much to think about. Most of the points have been well argued before, but these authors trace the contours of the arguments in greater detail and extend them to realms previously unaddressed." Richard A. Hilbert, Contemporary Sociology

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contributors
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Preface
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- By Graham Button, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth
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1 - Introduction: ethnomethodology and the foundational respecification of the human sciences
pp 1-9
- By Graham Button, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth
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2 - Respecification: evidence for locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena of order, logic, reason, meaning, method, etc. in and as of the essential haecceity of immortal ordinary society (I) – an announcement of studies
pp 10-19
- By Harold Garfinkel, University of California
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3 - Logic: ethnomethodology and the logic of language
pp 20-50
- By Jeff Coulter, Boston University
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4 - Epistemology: professional scepticism
pp 51-76
- By Wes Sharrock, University of Manchester, Bob Anderson, EuroPARC, Cambridge
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5 - Method: measurement – ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena
pp 77-108
- By Mike Lynch, Boston University
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6 - Method: evidence and inference – evidence and inference for ethnomethodology
pp 109-136
- By Douglas Benson, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, John Hughes, University of Lancaster
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7 - The social actor: social action in real time
pp 137-175
- By Wes Sharrock, University of Manchester, Graham Button, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth
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8 - Cognition: cognition in an ethnomethodological mode
pp 176-195
- By Jeff Coulter, Boston University
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9 - Language and culture: the linguistic analysis of culture
pp 196-226
- By John Lee, University of Manchester
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10 - Values and moral judgement: communicative praxis as moral order
pp 227-251
- By Lena Jayyusi, Cedar Crest College, Pennsylvania
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References
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Index
pp 271-278
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

1 - Introduction: ethnomethodology and the foundational respecification of the human sciences
pp 1-9

2 - Respecification: evidence for locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena of order, logic, reason, meaning, method, etc. in and as of the essential haecceity of immortal ordinary society (I) – an announcement of studies
pp 10-19

3 - Logic: ethnomethodology and the logic of language
pp 20-50

4 - Epistemology: professional scepticism
pp 51-76

5 - Method: measurement – ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena
pp 77-108

6 - Method: evidence and inference – evidence and inference for ethnomethodology
pp 109-136

7 - The social actor: social action in real time
pp 137-175

8 - Cognition: cognition in an ethnomethodological mode
pp 176-195

9 - Language and culture: the linguistic analysis of culture
pp 196-226

10 - Values and moral judgement: communicative praxis as moral order
pp 227-251

References
pp 252-270

Index
pp 271-278

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