It's been more than fifty years since Harold Garfinkel created the field of ethnomethodology—a discipline that offers a new way of understanding how people make sense of their everyday world. Since his book Studies in Ethnomethodology published in 1967, there has been a substantial—although often subterranean—growth in ethnomethodological (EM) work. Studies in and appreciation of ethnomethodological work continue to grow, but the breadth and penetration of his insights and inspiration for ongoing research have yet to secure their full measure of recognition. This volume celebrates Harold Garfinkel's enormous contributions to sociology and conversation analysis, exploring how ethnomethodology emerged, the empirical consequences of Garfinkel's work, and the significant contemporary work that has resulted from it. Douglas W. Maynard and John Heritage bring together experts from a wide range of theoretical and empirical areas to create the first comprehensive collection of work on EM that encompasses its role in "studies of work," in Conversation Analysis, and in other subdisciplines. Chapters highlight ethnomethodology's distinctive forms of ethnographic inquiry and its influences on a host of substantive domains including legal environments, science and technology, workplace and organizational inquiries, survey research, social problems and deviance, and disability and atypical interaction. The book explains how EM especially helped to set the agenda for gender studies, while also developing insights for inquiries into racial and ethnic features of everyday life and experience.Still, there is much of what Garfinkel called "unfinished business," which means that ethnomethodological inquiries are continuing to intensify and develop. The Ethnomethodology Program addresses this unfinished business: not only drawing attention to past accomplishments in the field, but also suggesting how these accomplishments set the stage for future endeavors that will benefit from EM-inspired approaches to social organization and interaction.
Author(s): Douglas W. Maynard, John Heritage
Series: Foundations of Human Interaction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 528
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. Ethnomethodology’s Legacies and Prospects • John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard
PART I: ANTECEDENTS AND THEORY
2. A Comparison of Decisions Made on Four “Pre-Theoretical” Problems by Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schütz • Harold Garfinkel
3. Harold Garfinkel’s Focus on Racism, Inequality, and Social Justice: The Early Years, 1939– 1952 • Anne Warfield Rawls
4. Garfinkel’s Studies of Work • Michael E. Lynch
PART II: EMPIRICAL IMPACT
5. Sources of Issues and Ways of Working: An Introduction to the Study of Naturally Organized Ordinary Activities • Harold Garfinkel
6. Rules and Policeable Matters: Enforcing the Civil Sidewalk Ordinance for “Another First Time” • Geoffrey Raymond, Lillian Jungleib, Don Zimmerman, and Nikki Jones
7. The Cooperative, Transformative Organization of Human Action and Knowledge • Charles Goodwin
8. Sex and the Sociological Dope: Garfinkel’s Intervention into the Emerging Disciplines of Sex/Gender • Kristen Schilt
9. Garfinkel, Social Problems, and Deviance: Reflections on the Values of Ethnomethodology • Darin Weinberg
10. The Ethnomethodological Lineage of Conversation Analysis • Steven E. Clayman, John Heritage, and Douglas W. Maynard
PART III: GROWTH POINTS
11. The Situated and Methodic Production of Accountable Action: The Challenges of Multimodality • Lorenza Mondada
12. Recovering the Work of a Discovering Science with a Video Camera in Hand: The Electronically Probed/Visually Discovered Spectrum • Philippe Sormani
13. Research with Numbers • Michael Mair, Wes W. Sharrock, and Christian Greiffenhagen
14. The Sherlock Experiment • Eric Livingston and John Heritage
15. Technology in Practice • Christian Heath and Paul Luff
16. Occam’s Razor and the Challenges of Generalization in Ethnomethodology • Iddo Tavory
17. Ethnomethodology and Atypical Interaction: The Case of Autism • Douglas W. Maynard and Jason J. Turowetz
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
