Books by Stephen Hester

Since the work of Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks in the 1960s, ethnomethodological work on matters of identity has proliferated. In spite of this however, there appears to have been little research on national identity in particular. This book brings together such work.

Revised edition of the authors' A sociology of crime, 1992.

This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization. This book provides detailed studies of members' use of membership categories across various settings from the O.J. Simpson trial, via TV commercials and news headlines, to school staff and referral meetings.

Talks about: how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities. This book illustrates how taking an ethnomethodological approach opens up for investigation phenomena that are taken for granted in conventional sociological theorizing.