Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Constructive Analysis: On Formal Structures of Practical Action

by Michael Lynch, Graham Button, Wes Sharrock

This book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold Garfinkel opposed the widespread attempt in the social sciences to construct disciplinary theories and methods in place of common-sense knowledge of human action, and proposed instead an alternative that would investigate the organised methods of natural language use and common-sense reasoning that constitute social orders - arguments that led to the establishment and proliferation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032106050
• ISBN13: 9781032106052
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"