Ethnomethodology and the Human SciencesGraham Button Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them. This book reappraises the significance of ethnomethodology in sociology in particular, and in the human sciences in general. It demonstrates how, through its empirical enquiries into the ordered properties of social action, ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood. The chapters, by leading scholars, take up the specification of action and order in theorising, logic, epistemology, measurement, evidence, the social actor, cognition, language and culture, and moral judgement, and underscore the ramifications for the human sciences of the ethnomethodologist's approach. This is a systematic and coherent collection which explicitly addresses fundamental conceptual issues. The clear exposition of the central tenets of ethnomethodology is especially welcome. |
Contents
Introduction ethnomethodology and the foundational respecification of the human sciences | 1 |
Respecification evidence for locally produced naturally accountable phenomena of order logic reason meaning method etc in and as of the essential ... | 10 |
Logic ethnomethodology and the logic of language | 20 |
Epistemology professional scepticism | 51 |
Method measurement ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena | 77 |
Method evidence and inferenceevidence and inference for ethnomethodology | 109 |
The social actor social action in real time | 137 |
Cognition cognition in an ethnomethodological mode | 176 |
Language and culture the linguistic analysis of culture | 196 |
Values and moral judgement communicative praxis as a moral order | 227 |
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