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  • Technology in Working Order

    Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology

    Edited by Graham Button ...
    Series series Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
    Social scientists have shown ongoing interest in how they can contribute to the use, design, operation, and implementation of technology. Substantial funding and research have supported empirically-based fieldwork that has led to important developments across various industrial and practical settings.Sociology has maintained a long-standing interest in technology, attempting to address its social ... Read more

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  • Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology

    The Prospect of an Alternate and Adequate Sociology

    by Graham Button ...
    Series series Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
    Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences. Although commonly run together under the title of EMCA, what their relationship is to one another remains as elusive as the relationship between their respective founders, Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks.This book clarifies the nature of these relationships, demonstrating ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Constructive Analysis

    On Formal Structures of Practical Action

    Series series Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
    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 – ... Read more

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  • Deconstructing Ethnography

    Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived in and understood ... Read more

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  • Literacy

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    Using Language to Cause Offence

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