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Author:   Stephen Hester ,  David Francis ,  Dr. Dave Francis ,  Dr. Stephen Hester
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780754633112

ISBN 10:   075463311
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   28 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Part 1 Ethnomethodology and Ordinary Action: Analysing orders of ordinary action, Stephen Hester and David Francis; 4 relations between literatures of the social scientific movement and their specific ethnomethodological alternates, Harold Garfinkel. Part 2 Studies of Practical Action in Organizational Settings: The technical operations of the levers of power, Wes Sharrock and Graham Button; Operating together through videoconference: members' procedures for accomplishing a common space of action, Lorenza Mondada; Doctors' practical management of knowledge in the daily case conference, Nozomi Ikeya and Mitsuhiro Okada; Auspices of corpus status: bibliography* as a phenomenon of respecification, Andrew P. Carlin. Part 3 Studies of Situated Reasoning: Law courts as perspicuous sites for ethnomethodological investigations, Michael Lynch; Circumstances of reasoning in the natural sciences, Eric Livingston; Expert system technology in work practice: a report on service technicians and machine diagnosis, Erik Vinkhuyzen and Jack Whalen; Thinking as a public activity: the local order of a Tibetan philosophical debate, Ken Liberman; Cultures of reading: on professional vision and the lived work of mammography, Roger Slack, Mark Hartswood, Rob Proctor and Mark Rouncefield; The 'problem of dust': forensic investigation as practical action, Robin Williams; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews

'This book answers the question: what have ethnomethodology's researchers been up to lately? A variety of studies including observations and explorations by leaders in the field - Garfinkel, Sharrock, Button, Lynch, Livingston and Liberman - and rising younger ones, yield impressive new insights into ordinary actions ranging from studies of surgical operations, mammography, and copy machine servicing to reasoning in the natural sciences, medical case conferences and the use of bibliographies. Throughout is a consistent focus on practical actions and practical reasoning in the respecification of ordinary social phenomena, proving that ethnomethodology is alive and well.' George Psathas, Boston University, USA

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Dr Stephen Hester is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wales - Bangor, UK. Dr David Francis is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Stephen Hester, David Francis, Harold Garfinkel, Wes Sharrock, Graham Button, Lorenza Mondada, Nozomi Ikeya, Mitsuhiro Okada, Andrew Carlin, Michael Lynch, Eric Livingston, Erik Vinkhuyzen, Jack Whalen, Ken Liberman, Roger Slack, Mark Hartswood, Rob Proctor, Mark Rouncefield, Robin Williams.

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