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
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...
Ethnomethodology at Play
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie
October 10, 2016
This book outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to 'play'; that is, to everyday sport and leisure activities that people generally engage in for enjoyment, at home or as a 'hobby'. With chapters on cooking, running, playing music, dancing, rock climbing, sailing, fly ...
Ethnographies of Reason
1st Edition
By Eric Livingston
September 30, 2016
Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illustrates. Using concrete case study materials throughout, Eric Livingston offers a fundamentally ...
Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology
1st Edition
By Dirk vom Lehn
May 01, 2014
This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically synonymous with ethnomethodology, an approach that since the 1960s has led to major analytic and methodological developments in sociology and other disciplines. ...