The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology

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

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