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- Title
Introduction: A Reader's Guide to Ethnomethodology.
- Authors
Lynch, Michael; Peyrot, Mark
- Abstract
The article presents the range of approaches to social interaction and practical action that ethnomethodology presently includes. Ethnomethodology is sometimes assumed to be a narrow approach to microsociology, but the research in the field can contribute to a broad range of scholarly concerns in the social sciences and humanities. Presently, ethnomethodology is established internationally as a field within sociology, but it has also made inroads into anthropology, communication studies, cognitive science, and science studies. For the most part, the early cognitive emphasis in ethnomethodology has been replaced by detailed investigations of material displays of intention, orientation, and recognition, which are produced whenever persons converse, conduct embodied actions, and accomplish more or less specialized work practices. In the `60s and `70s ethnomethodology was occasionally denounced by prominent social scientists as an occult approach to the investigation of social order, and many otherwise sympathetic sociologists were put off by the prolixity of the writing and the exceptionally detailed attention ethnomethodologists devoted to apparently trivial topics like conversational greetings, exchanges of glances, and service lines.
- Subjects
ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGICAL sociology; PERSONALITY &; culture; SOCIAL psychology; ANTHROPOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1992, Vol 15, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989490