Orders of Ordinary Action

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 seminal statement of ethnomethodology's analytic stance by its founder, Harold Garfinkel, the book then comprises two parts. The first introduces studies of practical action and organization, whilst the second provides studies of practical reasoning and situated logic in various settings. By organizing the book in this way, the collection demonstrates the relevance of ethnomethodological investigations to established topics and issues and indicates the contribution that ethnomethodology can make to the understanding of human action in any and all social contexts. Both individually and collectively, these contributions illustrate how taking an ethnomethodological approach opens up for investigation phenomena that are taken for granted in conventional sociological theorizing.

Part 1 Ethnomethodology And Ordinary Action; Chapter 1 Analysing Orders of Ordinary Action, Stephen Hester, David Francis; Chapter 2 Four Relations between Literatures of the Social Scientific Movement and their Specific Ethnomethodological Alternates, Harold Garfinkel; Part 2 Studies Of Practical Action In Organizational Settings; Chapter 3 1Thanks to Dave Martin for some thoughtful comments on an earlier draft of this chapter. , Wes Sharrock, Graham Button; Chapter 4 Operating Together through Videoconference: Members' Procedures for Accomplishing a Common Space of Action, Lorenza Mondada; Chapter 5 Doctors' Practical Management of Knowledge in the Daily Case Conference, Nozomi Ikeya, Mitsuhiro Okada; Chapter 6 Auspices of Corpus Status: Bibliography* as a Phenomenon of Respecification, Andrew P. Carlin; Part 3 Studies of Situated Reasoning; Chapter 7 Law Courts as Perspicuous Sites for Ethnomethodological Investigations, Michael Lynch; Chapter 8 1I thank Michelle Arens, Peter Forrest, David Francis, Kiyo Fujimori, Steve Hester, Martin Krieger, and Michael Lynch for their careful readings and commentary on this chapter. As indicated in the text, I am indebted to W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. for permission to use a problem and associated illustration from A. P. French, Newtonian Mechanics. , Eric Livingston; Chapter 9 Expert System Technology in Work Practice: A Report on Service Technicians and Machine Diagnosis, Erik Vinkhuyzen, Jack Whalen; Chapter 10 Thinking as a Public Activity: The Local Order of a Tibetan Philosophical Debate, Kenneth Liberman; Chapter 11 Cultures of Reading: On Professional Vision and the Lived Work of Mammography, Roger Slack, Mark Hartswood, Rob Procter, Mark Rouncefield; Chapter 12 The 'Problem of Dust': Forensic Investigation as Practical Action, Robin Williams;