Bücher der Reihe Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday activities.

This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual activities - demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a range of different fields, including sociology, human geography, communication and media studies, social psychology, and linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks's approach, as well as how their current research is taking Sacks's legacy forward in new directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary society.

Talks about: how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities. This book illustrates how taking an ethnomethodological approach opens up for investigation phenomena that are taken for granted in conventional sociological theorizing.

"Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business."

Offers a conversation analysis of children's arguments, revealing disputing as a highly ordered, rule-governed activity, even amongst very young children. This book provides a theoretical discussion of work in conversation analysis and speech act theory dealing with moves in disputes.

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. This work will be of interest to those studying ethnomethodology and sociology.

Featuring footage of families filmed in their homes, the author focuses on the initiation of interactive assessment sequences on the part of children with their parents and the manner in which, by means of embodied resources, such as talk, gaze, and gesture, they acquire communicative skills and a sense of themselves as effective social actors.

Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisure and ordinary domestic pastimes.

Using an ethnomethodological approach, this book offers an analysis of the methods and practices used by a group of children to generate and organize a particular game. It offers insight into the interactional resources used by children to produce and make sense of social action.

Contends that Peter Winch has been misrepresented in both literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. This book contends that social studies as a discipline has yet to rise to the challenges posed by Winch.

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 judicial space.