G Button
Biographic Data
| ID | 3041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Button |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Button |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xerox (France) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5260-1471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
In support of conversation analysis’ radical agenda
This comment provides an overview of the four articles by Lindwall, Lymer and Ivarsson; Lynch and Wong; Macbeth, Wong and Lynch; and Macbeth and Wong, which make up the kernel of this Special Issue of Discourse Studies on Epistemics; and it also examines the reasons for the assorted difficulties the authors of those articles have with the Epistemic Programme (EP) being proposed for conversation analysis (CA). The legitimacy of their concerns is u…
Ethnography as Cultural Theory
Deconstructing Ethnography
Eyeballing expertise
Tacit' and 'explicit' knowledge, and their relation to expertise, have a long-standing importance within social studies of science and technology. At the centre of the development of thinking about these topics has been the work of Harry Collins and Robert Evans. In this article, we bring to bear observations of the work of people involved in grading eye disease, and their seeming display of expertise, tacit and explicit knowledge, on three thrus…
Lifting the Mantle of Protection from Weber’s Presuppositions in His Theory of Bureaucracy
Against 'Distributed Cognition
Since its origination in psychology, cognitive theory has been articulated in a number of social science disciplines, most notably anthropology and sociology, It has also been important in shaping the intellectual landscape of emerging disciplines associated with the design of computer systems, human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Some people within these disciplines, however, have accepted the criticis…
Posters
Emerging Markets Platform Group
Disempowerment and resistance in the print industry? Reactions to surveillance–capable technology
This article offers a critique of recent characterisations of the effects of electronic technologies in the workplace. It presents detailed case study evidence that calls into question a number of common theoretical assumptions about the character of surveillance at work and the responses of employees to it
On the poverty of apriorism
Many debates about surveillance at work are framed by a set of a priori assumptions about the nature of the employment relationship that inhibits efforts to understand the complexity of employee responses to the spread of new technology at work. In particular, the debate about the prevalence of resistance is hamstrung from the outset by the assumption that all apparently non‐compliant acts, whether intentional or not, are to be counted as acts of…
Operating the production calculus
The topic of shop-floor work has been extensively examined within sociology. However, the organizational structures within which this work takes place have, in the most part, been taken as unexamined givens. Yet, their operation is also the shop-floor work of some people. This paper examines the way in which the stable organizational structures within which shop-floor work takes place are achieved. It is based upon a fieldwork investigation of a …
Call Centre Employees' Responses to Electronic Monitoring
There is a growing literature on employment in call centres, much of which suggests that they are characterised by high levels of work intensification and surveillance. Recently, a debate has emerged about the nature of surveillance in such workplaces and the level and character of employee resistance (Bain and Taylor 2000; Fernie and Metcalf 1998; Mulholland 1999) with some, such as Bain and Taylor, claiming that the argument is characterised by…
Do the right thing! Rule finitism, rule scepticism and rule following
On "Technomethodology"
Over the past 10 years, the use of sociological methods and sociological reasoning have become more prominent in the analysis and design of interactive systems. For a variety of reasons, one form of sociological inquiry—ethnomethodology—has become something of a favored approach. Our goal in this article is to investigate the consequences of approaching system design from the ethnomethodological perspective. In particular, we are concerned with h…
The Organizational Accountability of Technological Work
We address a problem examined by sociologists of `Big Science': the co-ordination of individuals on large-scale projects - in this case, industrial technology projects. We consider co-ordination to be a problem of social order which can be addressed through ethnomethodology's understanding of accountable action. We propose that the technology producers studied attend to the problem of the co-ordination of their work in the design of their actions…
Cognition in the Wild, Edwin Hutchins
On the Relevance of Habermas‘ Theory of Communicative Action for CSCW
The relevance of ?work-practice? for design
The relevance of ‘work-practice’ for design
What's wrong with speech-act theory
Not Clinging to Nurse for Fear of Something Worse
Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences
A Disagreement over Agreement and Consensus in Constructionist Sociology
Les AA. examinent le point de vue constructioniste en sociologie de la connaissance. Ils montrent que les adeptes du point de vue constructioniste partagent un interet commun pour l'etude de la construction sociale de la connaissance scientifique et pour deux idees essentielles : les notions d'accord et de consensus. Les AA. s'interrogent plus precisement sur le role de ces notions en sociologie de la science en general et dans les activites scie…
The social actor
If social theory is going to pay any attention at all to the nature of 'the social actor', then how is that actor to be conceived? For some approaches to social theory (the structuralism of Althusser, 1971, 1976 and 1979, and Lévi-Strauss, 1963 are notable examples) there is little if any need for such a conception. The human sciences, for them, are not concerned with 'individuals' but with social wholes, and insofar as any conception of the soci…
A clash of ideas
Talk and Social Organisation
This volume contains a collection of original studies in conversation analysis (C.A.) arranged and presented both to introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into the order and organisation of natural language. Though sociological in its orientation. C.A. and the papers here represented are of direct methodo…
Topic nomination and topic pursuit
A Disagreement over Agreement and Consensus in Constructionist Sociology
Les AA. examinent le point de vue constructioniste en sociologie de la connaissance. Ils montrent que les adeptes du point de vue constructioniste partagent un interet commun pour l'etude de la construction sociale de la connaissance scientifique et pour deux idees essentielles : les notions d'accord et de consensus. Les AA. s'interrogent plus precisement sur le role de ces notions en sociologie de la science en general et dans les activites scie…
The Organizational Accountability of Technological Work
We address a problem examined by sociologists of `Big Science': the co-ordination of individuals on large-scale projects - in this case, industrial technology projects. We consider co-ordination to be a problem of social order which can be addressed through ethnomethodology's understanding of accountable action. We propose that the technology producers studied attend to the problem of the co-ordination of their work in the design of their actions…
Topic initiation
(1988). Topic initiation: Business‐at‐hand. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 22, No. 1-4, pp. 61-91
Call Centre Employees' Responses to Electronic Monitoring
There is a growing literature on employment in call centres, much of which suggests that they are characterised by high levels of work intensification and surveillance. Recently, a debate has emerged about the nature of surveillance in such workplaces and the level and character of employee resistance (Bain and Taylor 2000; Fernie and Metcalf 1998; Mulholland 1999) with some, such as Bain and Taylor, claiming that the argument is characterised by…
Against 'Distributed Cognition
Since its origination in psychology, cognitive theory has been articulated in a number of social science disciplines, most notably anthropology and sociology, It has also been important in shaping the intellectual landscape of emerging disciplines associated with the design of computer systems, human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Some people within these disciplines, however, have accepted the criticis…
Answers as Interactional Products
Graham Button, Answers as Interactional Products: Two Sequential Practices Used in Interviews, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction (Jun., 1987), pp. 160-171
In support of conversation analysis’ radical agenda
This comment provides an overview of the four articles by Lindwall, Lymer and Ivarsson; Lynch and Wong; Macbeth, Wong and Lynch; and Macbeth and Wong, which make up the kernel of this Special Issue of Discourse Studies on Epistemics; and it also examines the reasons for the assorted difficulties the authors of those articles have with the Epistemic Programme (EP) being proposed for conversation analysis (CA). The legitimacy of their concerns is u…
Do the right thing! Rule finitism, rule scepticism and rule following
Eyeballing expertise
Tacit' and 'explicit' knowledge, and their relation to expertise, have a long-standing importance within social studies of science and technology. At the centre of the development of thinking about these topics has been the work of Harry Collins and Robert Evans. In this article, we bring to bear observations of the work of people involved in grading eye disease, and their seeming display of expertise, tacit and explicit knowledge, on three thrus…
Operating the production calculus
The topic of shop-floor work has been extensively examined within sociology. However, the organizational structures within which this work takes place have, in the most part, been taken as unexamined givens. Yet, their operation is also the shop-floor work of some people. This paper examines the way in which the stable organizational structures within which shop-floor work takes place are achieved. It is based upon a fieldwork investigation of a …
Lifting the Mantle of Protection from Weber’s Presuppositions in His Theory of Bureaucracy
Disempowerment and resistance in the print industry? Reactions to surveillance–capable technology
This article offers a critique of recent characterisations of the effects of electronic technologies in the workplace. It presents detailed case study evidence that calls into question a number of common theoretical assumptions about the character of surveillance at work and the responses of employees to it
A clash of ideas
Life Sentences; Aspects of the Social Role of Language
A Primer on Ethnomethodology
Topic nomination and topic pursuit
Answers as Interactional Products
Graham Button, Answers as Interactional Products: Two Sequential Practices Used in Interviews, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction (Jun., 1987), pp. 160-171
A short review of research on language and social interaction in the United Kingdom
(1988). A short review of research on language and social interaction in the United Kingdom. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 22, No. 1-4, pp. 327-345
Topic initiation
(1988). Topic initiation: Business‐at‐hand. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 22, No. 1-4, pp. 61-91
Talk and Social Organisation
This volume contains a collection of original studies in conversation analysis (C.A.) arranged and presented both to introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into the order and organisation of natural language. Though sociological in its orientation. C.A. and the papers here represented are of direct methodo…
A clash of ideas
The social actor
If social theory is going to pay any attention at all to the nature of 'the social actor', then how is that actor to be conceived? For some approaches to social theory (the structuralism of Althusser, 1971, 1976 and 1979, and Lévi-Strauss, 1963 are notable examples) there is little if any need for such a conception. The human sciences, for them, are not concerned with 'individuals' but with social wholes, and insofar as any conception of the soci…
Not Clinging to Nurse for Fear of Something Worse
Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences
A Disagreement over Agreement and Consensus in Constructionist Sociology
Les AA. examinent le point de vue constructioniste en sociologie de la connaissance. Ils montrent que les adeptes du point de vue constructioniste partagent un interet commun pour l'etude de la construction sociale de la connaissance scientifique et pour deux idees essentielles : les notions d'accord et de consensus. Les AA. s'interrogent plus precisement sur le role de ces notions en sociologie de la science en general et dans les activites scie…
What's wrong with speech-act theory
The relevance of ?work-practice? for design
The relevance of ‘work-practice’ for design
Cognition in the Wild, Edwin Hutchins
On the Relevance of Habermas‘ Theory of Communicative Action for CSCW
On "Technomethodology"
Over the past 10 years, the use of sociological methods and sociological reasoning have become more prominent in the analysis and design of interactive systems. For a variety of reasons, one form of sociological inquiry—ethnomethodology—has become something of a favored approach. Our goal in this article is to investigate the consequences of approaching system design from the ethnomethodological perspective. In particular, we are concerned with h…
The Organizational Accountability of Technological Work
We address a problem examined by sociologists of `Big Science': the co-ordination of individuals on large-scale projects - in this case, industrial technology projects. We consider co-ordination to be a problem of social order which can be addressed through ethnomethodology's understanding of accountable action. We propose that the technology producers studied attend to the problem of the co-ordination of their work in the design of their actions…
Do the right thing! Rule finitism, rule scepticism and rule following
Call Centre Employees' Responses to Electronic Monitoring
There is a growing literature on employment in call centres, much of which suggests that they are characterised by high levels of work intensification and surveillance. Recently, a debate has emerged about the nature of surveillance in such workplaces and the level and character of employee resistance (Bain and Taylor 2000; Fernie and Metcalf 1998; Mulholland 1999) with some, such as Bain and Taylor, claiming that the argument is characterised by…
On the poverty of apriorism
Many debates about surveillance at work are framed by a set of a priori assumptions about the nature of the employment relationship that inhibits efforts to understand the complexity of employee responses to the spread of new technology at work. In particular, the debate about the prevalence of resistance is hamstrung from the outset by the assumption that all apparently non‐compliant acts, whether intentional or not, are to be counted as acts of…
Operating the production calculus
The topic of shop-floor work has been extensively examined within sociology. However, the organizational structures within which this work takes place have, in the most part, been taken as unexamined givens. Yet, their operation is also the shop-floor work of some people. This paper examines the way in which the stable organizational structures within which shop-floor work takes place are achieved. It is based upon a fieldwork investigation of a …
Disempowerment and resistance in the print industry? Reactions to surveillance–capable technology
This article offers a critique of recent characterisations of the effects of electronic technologies in the workplace. It presents detailed case study evidence that calls into question a number of common theoretical assumptions about the character of surveillance at work and the responses of employees to it
Posters
Emerging Markets Platform Group
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