Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
About the Book Series
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis are cognate approaches to the study of social action that together comprise a major perspective within the contemporary human sciences. Ethnomethodology focuses upon the production of situated and ordered social action of all kinds, whilst Conversation Analysis has a more specific focus on the production and organisation of talk-in-interaction. Of course, given that so much social action is conducted in and through talk, there are substantive as well theoretical continuities between the two approaches. Focusing on social activities as situated human productions, these approaches seek to analyse the intelligibility and accountability of social activities ‘from within’ those activities themselves, using methods that can be analysed and described. Such methods amount to aptitudes, skills, knowledge and competencies that members of society use, rely upon and take for granted in conducting their affairs across the whole range of social life.
As a result of the methodological rewards consequent upon their unique analytic approach and attention to the detailed orderliness of social life, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have ramified across a wide range of human science disciplines throughout the world, including anthropology, social psychology, linguistics, communication studies and social studies of science and technology.
This series is dedicated to publishing the latest work in these two fields, including research monographs, edited collections and theoretical treatises. As such, its volumes are essential reading for those concerned with the study of human conduct and aptitudes, the (re)production of social orderliness and the methods and aspirations of the social sciences.
Follow the link below for the series ‘freebook’ of Taylor & Francis / Routledge Content, Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies of Race and Racism in Everyday Interaction: https://www.routledge.com/go/black-lives-matter-an-ethnomethodology-freebook
Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity
1st Edition
By Marjorie Goodwin, Asta Cekaite
October 17, 2019
Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of family interaction in the US and Sweden...
Routledge Revivals: Ethnomethodological Studies of Work (1986)
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold Garfinkel
May 07, 2019
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. In addition to four case studies, the volume begins and ends with two essays...
Conversation Analysis and Early Childhood Education: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships
1st Edition
By Amanda Bateman
May 09, 2018
This book provides insight into the everyday activities co-produced by teachers and young children, demonstrating the fine details of teaching and learning as knowledge is shared through the everyday activities of talk-in-interaction. Adopting an ethnomethodological perspective, together with ...
Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground
1st Edition
By Carly W. Butler
November 17, 2016
This book offers a rich and detailed empirical account of children's play and interaction in the school playground. Drawing on the approaches of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, 'Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground' examines the organisation of membership and social action in a...
Analysing Practical and Professional Texts: A Naturalistic Approach
1st Edition
By Rod Watson
November 16, 2016
Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but also textually-constituted, showing...
Ethnomethodology at Work
1st Edition
By Peter Tolmie, Mark Rouncefield
November 15, 2016
Bringing together one of the most important bodies of research into people's working practices, this volume 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 ...
Institutional Interaction: Studies of Talk at Work
1st Edition
By Ilkka Arminen
November 15, 2016
Institutional Interaction focuses on talk and interaction in institutional contexts. The first systematic book-length study on this expanding area, it discusses the theory and methodology of conversation analysis, focusing on studies of institutional interaction, before examining the basics of ...
Orders of Ordinary Action: Respecifying Sociological Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By David Francis, Stephen Hester
November 10, 2016
Presenting original research studies by leading scholars in the field, Orders of Ordinary Action considers how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities. Following an introduction by the editors and a ...
Preference Organisation and Peer Disputes: How Young Children Resolve Conflict
1st Edition
By Amelia Church
November 10, 2016
How do children get their own way in arguments? What is the most effective way of pursuing one's own goals in preschool? 'Use your words' is an instruction frequently heard in nurseries and pre-schools encouraging young children to resolve the situation through verbal rather than physical means. ...
There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch
1st Edition
By Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read
November 10, 2016
The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and ...
The Academic Presentation: Situated Talk in Action
1st Edition
By Johanna Rendle-Short
October 31, 2016
How is the task of giving a presentation accomplished? In this insightful book Johanna Rendle-Short unpacks this seemingly simple task to show the complexity that underlies it. Examining the academic presentation as a case in point, she details how seminar presenters interact with the audience and ...
Adjudication in Action: An Ethnomethodology of Law, Morality and Justice
1st Edition
By Baudouin Dupret
October 17, 2016
Adjudication in Action 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...