Books in the Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis series

This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday activities.

Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisure and ordinary domestic pastimes.

Outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to work, providing an introduction to the key conceptual resources ethnomethodology has drawn upon in its studies, and a set of chapters that examine how people work from a foundational perspective.

This book is devoted to the re-introduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Drawing together different fields to which Sacks' work is central, it considers the ways in which his ideas may inform our understanding of new forms of data and materials.

"Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business."

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and exploring the discipline in its social order, formal stringency and skilful performance - in situ and in vivo.

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.

Featuring footage of families filmed in their homes, the author focuses on the initiation of interactive assessment sequences on the part of children with their parents and the manner in which, by means of embodied resources, such as talk, gaze, and gesture, they acquire communicative skills and a sense of themselves as effective social actors.

A concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science, and a basic description of ethnomethodology, a research tradition that he created.

Using an ethnomethodological approach, this book offers an analysis of the methods and practices used by a group of children to generate and organize a particular game. It offers insight into the interactional resources used by children to produce and make sense of social action.

Contends that Peter Winch has been misrepresented in both literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. This book contends that social studies as a discipline has yet to rise to the challenges posed by Winch.

Shows the complexity that underlies giving a presentation. This book details when things go according to plan from the perspective of the listening audience and shows how seminar presenters interact with the audience and objects around them to produce a coherent whole that is the academic presentation.

Describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space.

Focusing on talk and interaction in institutional contexts, this study discusses the theory and methodology of conversation analysis. It assesses applications, such as human-computer interaction, the role of ethnography, statistics and more. It is useful for those involved in socio-linguistics, social psychology, and organizational studies.

Focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. This book reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature but also textually-constituted, showing how various social-scientific methodologies employ the resources of ordinary language.

Offers a conversation analysis of children's arguments, revealing disputing as a highly ordered, rule-governed activity, even amongst very young children. This book provides a theoretical discussion of work in conversation analysis and speech act theory dealing with moves in disputes.

Using case-study materials, this book offers a fundamentally different, ethnographic approach to the study of skill and reasoning. It addresses a topic in the literature by illustrating practical techniques of ethnomethodological research and showing how such studies are actually conducted.

First published in 1986, this collection of essays brings together ethnomethodological studies from key academics of the discipline, including the renowned scholar Harold Garfinkel who established and developed the field. This work will be of interest to those studying ethnomethodology and sociology.

First published in 1986, this collection of essays brings together ethnomethodological studies from key academics of the discipline, including the renowned scholar Harold Garfinkel who established and developed the field. This work will be of interest to those studying ethnomethodology and sociology.