"This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of ethnomethodology - on the topic of practices in the natural sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and sustainedaccount of his program for the study of ordinary and specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major part its development at the time. Aside from their historical importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals relating to developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and science and technology studies with interests in the work of Garfinkel"--
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel the founder of ethnomethodology on the topic of laboratory work in the natural sciences, providing a coherent and sustained account of his program for the study of work in the natural sciences and mathematics.
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel the founder of ethnomethodology on the topic of practices in the natural sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of Garfinkel.
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PART I Respecifying the natural sciences as discovering sciences of practical action, I & II: doing so ethnographically by administering a schedule of contingencies in discussions with laboratory scientists and by hanging around their laboratories |
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Editor's introduction to Part I |
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Respecifying the natural sciences as discovering sciences of practical action |
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Appendix 1 Postscript and preface |
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Appendix 2 Some notes on the play of basketball in its circumstantial detail |
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Appendix 4 Collections of studies I--VII respecifying the natural sciences as discovering sciences of practical action |
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Acknowledgements, notes and references |
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PART II Discovering work of the sciences: five seminars on the work of the discovering sciences, Department of Sociology, UCLA (May-July 1980) |
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Seminar 1 Discovering work of the sciences (May 22, 1980) |
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Seminar 2 Discovering work of the sciences (May 27, 1980) |
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Seminar 3 Discovering work of the sciences (June 3, 1980) |
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Seminar 4 Discovering work of the sciences (June 19, 1980) |
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Seminar 5 Discovering work of the sciences (July 1, 1980) |
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Harold Garfinkel (19172011) was a professor of sociology who spent most of his career at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He acquired an international reputation as the founder of ethnomethodology, the study of practical actions and reasoning in everyday life and specialized fields of action.
Michael Lynch is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA, and Research Professor in the School of Media and Information, University of Siegen, Germany. He has authored and edited numerous books and has written more than a hundred peer-reviewed articles on practices in science, law, and other fields of action. From 2002 to 2012, he was editor of Social Studies of Science, a leading journal in the field of Science and Technology Studies.
