Dirk Vom Lehn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 95837 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dirk Vom Lehn |
| NOMBRES | Dirk Vom |
| APELLIDO | Lehn |
| FIRMA | LEHN D V |
| AFILIACIONES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6778-0000 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 226 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book. Subsequently, three Goffman scholars, Greg Smith, Chiara Bassetti and Stacey Hannem critically engage with the text, before Gary Jaworski offers his response to the crit…
When Care Meets Commerce
Simmel and Ethnomethodology
Georg Simmel, despite being a founding father of sociology, is often excluded from the list of the discipline’s principal founders. This neglect of Simmel’s work was perpetuated in ethnomethodology even though, like ethnomethodology, Simmel’s work concerns the minute organization of everyday interaction. It can, therefore, be of considerable importance for ethnomethodological inquiries. A group of ethnomethodologists devoted two years to reviewin…
Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums
This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned prisons, transformed into immersive educational attractions, drawing upon multiple interpretative practices to engage visitors with historic and contemporary issues of crime and punishment. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA), this research examines how gestures, talk, gaze and bod…
Negotiating shared understanding
Repair–the process of detecting and responding to problems with speaking, hearing or understanding in conversation–is the focus of a range of established coding protocols. We discuss the practical process of developing and applying these protocols to a range of verbal and non-verbal repair phenomena. Coding protocols necessarily trade detail for generalization. We consider four payoffs: (i) practical–reduced effort and increased speed and scale o…
Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions
Non-lexical vocalizations are key interactional resources for novices learning joint embodied actions. We use ethnomethodological video analysis of a beginners' partner dance workshop to explore how novices use non-lexical vocalizations to navigate unfamiliar dance movements together. These vocalizations often accompany apologies, accounts, and bodily actions that mark moments of trouble with coordination. We show how these non-lexical vocalizati…
Sound and vision
The Robots Are Coming
Garfinkel und Interaktion
The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism
Ethno-Theory, Ethnomethodology and Sociological Theory
Ethnomethodologie
Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism
Introduction
In this introduction, we provide the scholarly background that motivates the special issue and briefly discuss its content. We touch on contemporary debates in symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and anthropology that inform the research undertaken by the contributors. We conclude by deriving six interrelated themes-intersection, entwinement, multimodal, contextually embedded, structured, and serendipitous-from an…
Servicing the body
Various forms of service work rely upon personnel undertaking activities that necessitate close, and in some cases potentially intimate, contact with a client’s body. In this paper, we consider the ways in which opticians place and position glasses on the head of their clients and how they avoid, or at least ameliorate, the problems and sensitivities that might arise in this close encounter with the co-participant. The paper is based on the analy…
Seeing as accountable action
In this article it is argued that the growing field of the sociology of the senses has had a strong methodological focus on people's accounts of their sensorial experiences at the expense of studying the practical achievement of sense work as an interactional phenomenon. Recent work has called for more innovative methods in sensorial scholarship and the use of creative approaches to explore the senses. While applauding this move, in this article …
Digitalization as 'an Agent of Social Change' in a Supermarket Chain
In this article I pursue Blumer's argument in Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change that social changes are the consequence of people's interpretation of technology. By examining oral history interviews with managers and other staff of the British supermarket chain Tesco I explore the relationship between 'digitalization' and the organization of the business. The analysis reveals how the interviewees interpreted emerging computing techno…
The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites
Introduction: Urban Heritage and the 'Everyday'Community-driven involvement in heritage practice has been advocated through a number of key texts and case studies, chronicling not only
From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction
Since the 1940s Harold Garfinkel developed ethnomethodology as a distinctive sociological attitude. This sociological attitude turns the focus of the analysis of interaction to the actor’s perspective. It suggests that interaction is ongoingly produced through actions that are organized in a retrospective and prospective fashion. The ethnomethodological analysis of interaction therefore investigates how actors produce their actions in light of th…
Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries Libraries Archives Museums and Heritage Sites
Ethnomethodologische Interaktionsanalyse
Data, now bigger and better
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology originates in Harold Garfinkel's (1917–2011) analysis of “social order.” It is a “sociological attitude” that fundamentally differs from the ways in which social order is conceived in “traditional” sociology. Rather than conceiving the everyday as disorderly and messy, ethnomethodology examines the orderliness and organization of social action in specific circumstances. Its studies reveal the methods of commonsense and practical …
Objective Measures and Subjective Reports
The paper discusses how visual research methods that draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis can help sociologists to reveal how optometrists’ assess the clarity of their clients’ distance vision. It argues that the detailed analysis of video-recorded interactions in optometric consultation rooms can help reveal the practical organization of the ‘routine’ work through which optometrists examine and assess their clients’ sight. Save for…
Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory
From hospitals and prisons to schools and corporations: no matter how large or seemingly abstract, all institutions are ultimately the result of the actions and interactions of people. In this original and innovative text, Gibson and Vom Lehn show the different ways in which studying people’s own meaning-making practices can help us understand the role of institutions in contemporary society. Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory takes the …
Exhibiting Interaction
This article explores how individuals, both alone and together, examine exhibits in museums and galleries. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, it focuses on the ways in which visitors encounter and experience exhibits and how their activities are organized, at least in part, with intimate regard to the actions of others in the domain, both companions and 'strangers.' This study contributes to the long-standing concerns of symbo…
Configuring Reception
Despite the growing sociological interest in the object, and the long-standing tradition in the humanities and social sciences concerned with the creation of art and artefacts, there is relatively little research about how people in ordinary day-to-day circumstances explore and respond to exhibits in museums and galleries. In this article, we address the conduct and interaction of visitors to museums and galleries and consider how they examine an…
Data, now bigger and better
Configuring 'Interactivity
There is a growing commitment within science centres and museums to develop exhibitions that engender new forms of participation that contribute to the public's understanding of science. Information and communication systems play an important role in this regard, enabling new forms of `interaction' with and around exhibits. In this paper we consider how visitors respond to these exhibits and explore the forms of interaction that arise within thes…
Crafting participation
There is a growing interest amongst both artists and curators in designing art works which create new forms of visual communication and enhance interaction in museums and galleries. Despite extraordinary advances in the analysis of talk and discourse, there is relatively little research concerned with conduct and collaboration with and around aesthetic objects and artefacts, and to some extent, the social and cognitive sciences have paid less att…
Seeing as accountable action
In this article it is argued that the growing field of the sociology of the senses has had a strong methodological focus on people's accounts of their sensorial experiences at the expense of studying the practical achievement of sense work as an interactional phenomenon. Recent work has called for more innovative methods in sensorial scholarship and the use of creative approaches to explore the senses. While applauding this move, in this article …
Introduction
In this introduction, we provide the scholarly background that motivates the special issue and briefly discuss its content. We touch on contemporary debates in symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and anthropology that inform the research undertaken by the contributors. We conclude by deriving six interrelated themes-intersection, entwinement, multimodal, contextually embedded, structured, and serendipitous-from an…
Phenomenology-Based Ethnography
The article provides the background and rationale for the Special Issue. It explains the origins of phenomenology-based ethnography in Alfred Schutz's analysis of the life-world and points to some recent development in this approach that is of particular importance in sociology in German-speaking countries. It finishes with a brief introduction to the articles of the issue
Die Kunst der Kunstbetrachtung
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 83 - 99
Assessing Distance Vision as Interactional Achievment
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions
Non-lexical vocalizations are key interactional resources for novices learning joint embodied actions. We use ethnomethodological video analysis of a beginners' partner dance workshop to explore how novices use non-lexical vocalizations to navigate unfamiliar dance movements together. These vocalizations often accompany apologies, accounts, and bodily actions that mark moments of trouble with coordination. We show how these non-lexical vocalizati…
The Problem With “Problems”
This article contributes to conversation analytic understanding of openings in health-care consultations. It focuses on the case of optometry: a form of health-care practice in which an optometrist conducts checks of a patient's vision and eye health. Patients are advised to attend regularly for routine assessments and can also request a specific appointment at any time. Analysis of a corpus of 66 consultations shows what happens when the optomet…
Playing with words
There is growing interest within museums and galleries in enabling visitors to contribute thoughts, reflections and materials and to make these available to the wider public both within the museum space and beyond. It is widely recognised that digital technologies and developments provide unprecedented opportunities to facilitate engagement and provide new and distinctive forms of participation, sociality and creativity. In this paper, we explore…
Re‐constituting social praxis
Drawing on an ethnomethodological study of work practices in optometry, this paper provides an illustration of the processes involved in the analysis of video recordings of naturalistic data. The analytic perspective outlined here involves attempting to reconstruct the sense‐making resources that are used by participants in real‐world settings to constitute the environments they operate within. In this paper, we present a preliminary examination …
Producing and consuming arts
There has recently been a growing concern with the cultural and creative industries in the UK and elsewhere. Governments, recognizing the potential of these industries, have begun to foster an envi
(Il)Legitimisation of the role of the nation state
This study aims to explore Turkish citizen-consumers’ understanding of and reactions to censorship of websites in Turkey by using in-depth interviews and online ethnography. In an environment where sites such as YouTube and others are increasingly being banned, the citizen-consumers’ macro-level understanding is that such censorship is part of a wider ideological plan and their micro-level understanding is that their relationship with the wider g…
Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums
This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned prisons, transformed into immersive educational attractions, drawing upon multiple interpretative practices to engage visitors with historic and contemporary issues of crime and punishment. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA), this research examines how gestures, talk, gaze and bod…
From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction
Since the 1940s Harold Garfinkel developed ethnomethodology as a distinctive sociological attitude. This sociological attitude turns the focus of the analysis of interaction to the actor’s perspective. It suggests that interaction is ongoingly produced through actions that are organized in a retrospective and prospective fashion. The ethnomethodological analysis of interaction therefore investigates how actors produce their actions in light of th…
Four-to-the-Floor
Analytic Affordance
This article explores the role of transcripts in the analysis of social action. Drawing on a study of the interactional processes in optometry consultations, we show how our interest in the rhythm of reading letters from a chart arose serendipitously from our orientation to transcription conventions. We discuss our development of alternative transcription systems, and the affordances of each. We relate this example to constructivist debates in th…
Engendering Response
Many of the procedures undertaken within healthcare require specialized forms of participation that may be unfamiliar, even disturbing, to patients or clients. The practitioner has to encourage and enable participation in the investigation in an appropriate fashion while preserving the structure and integrity of the procedure. In this article, we consider optometry and the deployment of a vision test, known as subject refraction, that provides da…
Interaction and Symbolic Interactionism1
Textuality and interaction
Textualité et interaction : la production coopérative des reportages journalistiques. On assiste depuis quelques à l'émergence d'une gamme d'environnements technologiques et organisationnels où le personnel doit gérer en vitesse un grand nombre de données de type et de provenance variés. Dans cet article, nous examinons un domaine de ce type : la section éditoriale d'une agence de presse internationale qui fournit des informations en temps réel à…
Exhibiting Interaction
This article explores how individuals, both alone and together, examine exhibits in museums and galleries. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, it focuses on the ways in which visitors encounter and experience exhibits and how their activities are organized, at least in part, with intimate regard to the actions of others in the domain, both companions and 'strangers.' This study contributes to the long-standing concerns of symbo…
Configuring Awareness
Crafting participation
There is a growing interest amongst both artists and curators in designing art works which create new forms of visual communication and enhance interaction in museums and galleries. Despite extraordinary advances in the analysis of talk and discourse, there is relatively little research concerned with conduct and collaboration with and around aesthetic objects and artefacts, and to some extent, the social and cognitive sciences have paid less att…
Configuring Reception
Despite the growing sociological interest in the object, and the long-standing tradition in the humanities and social sciences concerned with the creation of art and artefacts, there is relatively little research about how people in ordinary day-to-day circumstances explore and respond to exhibits in museums and galleries. In this article, we address the conduct and interaction of visitors to museums and galleries and consider how they examine an…
Interaction and interactives
It is increasingly recognized that social interaction and collaboration are critical to our experience of museums and galleries. Curators, museum managers and designers are exploring ways of enhancing interaction and in particular using tools and technologies to create new forms of participation, with and around, exhibits. It is found, however, that these new tools and technologies, whilst enhancing “interactivity,” can do so at the cost of socia…
Creating Assemblies in Public Environments
Die Kunst der Kunstbetrachtung
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 83 - 99
Interaction
“Interaction” describes particular kinds of social relationship that are different from, but constitutive of, groups, organizations, and networks. Interaction occurs when two or more participants are in each other's perceptual range and orient to each other through their action and activity. It ends when the participants dissolve their mutual orientation and leave the social situation
Special Issue of Consumption, Markets and Culture
Interest in the arts has increased in recent years among both academics and policy makers. In many countries, cultural policy has moved from viewing the arts in terms of the funding and administrat
Configuring 'Interactivity
There is a growing commitment within science centres and museums to develop exhibitions that engender new forms of participation that contribute to the public's understanding of science. Information and communication systems play an important role in this regard, enabling new forms of `interaction' with and around exhibits. In this paper we consider how visitors respond to these exhibits and explore the forms of interaction that arise within thes…
Producing and consuming arts
There has recently been a growing concern with the cultural and creative industries in the UK and elsewhere. Governments, recognizing the potential of these industries, have begun to foster an envi
Re‐constituting social praxis
Drawing on an ethnomethodological study of work practices in optometry, this paper provides an illustration of the processes involved in the analysis of video recordings of naturalistic data. The analytic perspective outlined here involves attempting to reconstruct the sense‐making resources that are used by participants in real‐world settings to constitute the environments they operate within. In this paper, we present a preliminary examination …
Interaction and Symbolic Interactionism1
(Il)Legitimisation of the role of the nation state
This study aims to explore Turkish citizen-consumers’ understanding of and reactions to censorship of websites in Turkey by using in-depth interviews and online ethnography. In an environment where sites such as YouTube and others are increasingly being banned, the citizen-consumers’ macro-level understanding is that such censorship is part of a wider ideological plan and their micro-level understanding is that their relationship with the wider g…
The Problem With “Problems”
This article contributes to conversation analytic understanding of openings in health-care consultations. It focuses on the case of optometry: a form of health-care practice in which an optometrist conducts checks of a patient's vision and eye health. Patients are advised to attend regularly for routine assessments and can also request a specific appointment at any time. Analysis of a corpus of 66 consultations shows what happens when the optomet…
Engendering Response
Many of the procedures undertaken within healthcare require specialized forms of participation that may be unfamiliar, even disturbing, to patients or clients. The practitioner has to encourage and enable participation in the investigation in an appropriate fashion while preserving the structure and integrity of the procedure. In this article, we consider optometry and the deployment of a vision test, known as subject refraction, that provides da…
Assessing Distance Vision as Interactional Achievment
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
Harold Garfinkel
"This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically synonymous with ethnomethodology, an approach that since the 1960s has led to major analytic and methodological developments in sociology and other disciplines. This introduction to Garfinkel explores how he developed ethnomethodology under the influence of Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz, situates it within …
Analytic Affordance
This article explores the role of transcripts in the analysis of social action. Drawing on a study of the interactional processes in optometry consultations, we show how our interest in the rhythm of reading letters from a chart arose serendipitously from our orientation to transcription conventions. We discuss our development of alternative transcription systems, and the affordances of each. We relate this example to constructivist debates in th…
Interaction
“Interaction” is a sociological concept that describes relationships between two or more participants. It goes back to the studies by Georg Simmel and was elaborated upon by Erving Goffman, who has provided a range of observations and concepts that help systematize the organization of human relationships in social situations. At least since the 1960s, social psychologists and sociologists have begun to explore differences in the organization of i…
Phenomenology-Based Ethnography
The article provides the background and rationale for the Special Issue. It explains the origins of phenomenology-based ethnography in Alfred Schutz's analysis of the life-world and points to some recent development in this approach that is of particular importance in sociology in German-speaking countries. It finishes with a brief introduction to the articles of the issue
Workplace Studies
Workplace studies is a relatively new area of research that has emerged in light of the increasing sociological interest in the “object” and the growing interest in some of the technical and applied computer sciences in the social organization of work. Drawing on approaches and perspectives from the social and cognitive sciences and primarily using naturalistic data, such as ethnographic field observation and video recording workplace, studies ex…
Playing with words
There is growing interest within museums and galleries in enabling visitors to contribute thoughts, reflections and materials and to make these available to the wider public both within the museum space and beyond. It is widely recognised that digital technologies and developments provide unprecedented opportunities to facilitate engagement and provide new and distinctive forms of participation, sociality and creativity. In this paper, we explore…
Four-to-the-Floor
Sociology (37 obras) · Computer Science (23 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Social science (18 obras) · Epistemology (17 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (15 obras) · Art (13 obras) · Ethnomethodology (13 obras) · Communication (11 obras)