This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing issues and developments in the field of ethnomethodology, including ethnomethodological conversation analysis, and highlights new and emerging areas for research. With truly authoritative coverage of the state of the art, including current debates, methodological issues, emerging topics for inquiry, new perspectives on established topics, empirical studies, and resources for study, The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology features lively, challenging discussions by a diverse range of international practitioners that will provide readers with unrivalled scholarship on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis for years to come. Sections include ""Contexts and New Resources"", ""Theoretical Orientations"", ""Study Approaches"", ""Lay and Professional Analysis"" and ""Areas of Application"". Moving past the focus on Garfinkel’s ""discovery"" of the field as a domain of study in the 1950s, and acknowledging how ethnomethodology has changed since then by accounting for both the phenomenologically informed and Wittgensteinian emphases in ethnomethodology, this Handbook constitutes an important update on the study and complexity of the topic. As such, The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology will be a valuable point of reference for students and scholars across the fields of sociology, communication and science studies, interaction studies, language and linguistics, among others.
Edited by:
Andrew P. Carlin,
Alex Dennis (University of Sheffield,
UK),
K. Neil Jenkings (Newcastle University,
UK),
Oskar Lindwall (University of Gothenburg,
Sweden),
Michael Mair (University of Liverpool,
UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9780367340971
ISBN 10: 0367340976
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 31 March 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on Contributors List of Figures Preface: On the Pedagogy of Ethnomethodology Acknowledgements 1. Ethnomethodology and Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis: An Orientation to Studies K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Andrew P. Carlin, Michael Mair, Alex Dennis Section I Contexts and New Resources for Ethnomethodology Editorial Section One: Contexts and New Resources for Ethnomethodology Andrew P. Carlin 2. Ethnomethodology Michael Lynch 3. Conversation Analysis Kang Kwong Luke 4. Ways of Working in the Harold Garfinkel Archive Anne W. Rawls and Jason Turowetz 5. Sacks and Garfinkel: On Ethnomethodological and Sociological Inquiry Richard Fitzgerald 6. Egon Bittner’s Place in Ethnomethodology Albert J. Meehan 7. The Emergence of Ethnomethodology as a Collaborative Accomplishment Andrew P. Carlin, Rod Watson and Sheena Murdoch Section II Theoretical Orientations Editorial Section II: Ethnomethodological Readings of Philosophy, Social Theory and the Social Sciences Michael Mair 8. Alfred Schütz, Aron Gurwitsch, and Harold Garfinkel. The Phenomenological Origins of Ethnomethodology Christian Meyer 9. Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty Kenneth Liberman 10. The Documentary Method of Interpretation, Reflexivity, and Indexicality Alex Dennis 11. Accounts Lena Jayyusi 12. Respecification: Of Epistopics, Epistemics, the Particle “Oh,” and/or Other Puzzles Philippe Sormani 13. Instructed Action as Non-Foundationalist Foundations Dušan Bjelić 14. Wittgenstein and Winch Phil Hutchinson and Wes Sharrock Section III Study Approaches Editorial Section III: Study Approaches Oskar Lindwall 15. EMCA’s Phenomena of Study: A Brief Lexicon Douglas Macbeth 16. Ethnomethodological Ethnography Yaël Kreplak and Julia Velkovska 17. The Unique Adequacy Requirement of Methods Phillip Brooker 18. Membership Categorisation Analysis Robin James Smith 19. Sequential Analysis Aug Nishizaka and Kaoru Hayano 20. The Development of Video Analysis: The Work of Charles Goodwin, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, and Christian Heath Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Asta Cekaite 21. Transcription Lorenza Mondada Section IV Lay and Professional Analysis Editorial Section IV: Lay and Professional Analysis Alex Dennis 22. Instructed Action and the Thorny Problems of Actor Knowledge Timothy Koschmann 23. Instructed Action, in and as Ethnomethodology Wendy Sherman Heckler 24. Lay and Professional Inquiry: Multimodal Analysis Andrew P. Carlin, Roger S. Slack, Ricardo Moutinho 25. The Temporality of Social Phenomena Richard H. R. Harper 26. Ordinary Activities Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield 27. Hybrid Studies Nozomi Ikeya Section V Areas of Application Editorial Section V: On the Editorial Practices of (Re-)Presenting and Curating Ethnomethodological Studies K. Neil Jenkings 28. Family Sara Keel 29. Education Hansun Zhang Waring 30. Doing Ethnomethodology and Sport John Hockey 31. Medicine and Healthcare Alison Pilnick 32. Science Janet Vertesi 33. Ethnomethodology and Organisation Studies Jon Hindmarsh and Nick Llewellyn 34. The Ethnomethods of Law and Order: Studying Cops and Courts Patrick G. Watson Index
Andrew P. Carlin teaches Library & Information Management at the School of Education, Ulster University, Coleraine (UK). His areas of interest include ethnomethodology and information. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. 0000-0001-5138-9384 Alex Dennis is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Magic, Science and Society (Routledge), and co-editor of two special journal issues on ethnography and ethnomethodology. ORCID number 0000-0003-4625-1123 K. Neil Jenkings is a senior researcher at Newcastle University, UK. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on various social phenomena including health service organisation and decision-making practices, military and society, and rock-climbing. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. Orcid: 0000-0003-3513-2823 Oskar Lindwall is a Professor in Communication at the Department of Applied IT, Gothenburg University. His research focuses on instructed actions, embodied skills, and the competent production of social worlds. 0000-0001-6082-4990 Michael Mair is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool/ Senior Fellow UK National Centre for Research Methods. He is an ethnomethodologist whose work focuses on the politics of accountability in and across different settings as well as methodological practice in the social and natural sciences, including qualitative, quantitative and digital methods as well as experimentation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. 0000-0003-0929-5426
