W W Sharrock
Biographic Data
| ID | 252837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W W Sharrock |
| GIVEN NAMES | W W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharrock |
| SIGNATURE | SHARROCK W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Constructive Analysis
Philosophy of Social Research
Statistical Practice
As a contribution to current debates on the 'social life of methods', in this article we present an ethnomethodological study of the role of understanding within statistical practice. After reviewing the empirical turn in the methods literature and the challenges to the qualitative-quantitative divide it has given rise to, we argue such case studies are relevant because they enable us to see different ways in which 'methods', here quantitative me…
Perspectives in Sociology
From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a completely rewritten general introduction and conclusion; all-new introductions to each part, clarifying how each one builds on what came before; an updated set of formative questions at the end of each chapter; a compreh…
The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals)
Originally published in 1986, this work examines how key figures such as Garfinkel, Sacks and Cicourel have revolutionised thinking about how sociology's presuppositions about 'being social' are grounded. Yet until the appearance of this book there were no clear and authoritative introductions to the main thinkers in the field or their work. In assessing the critical reception of Ethnomethodology, Sharrock and Anderson argue persuasively that muc…
Theory and Methods in Sociology
Perspectives in Sociology
From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century, placing them in historical and philosophical context information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century whose relevance to modern soci…
Perspectives in Sociology
Perspectives in Sociology provides students with a lively and critical introduction to sociology and to the ways in which sociologists are trained to think and work. The subject is presented as a sequence of different perspectives on the social world, all of them interrelated, sometimes in conflict with one another, and all contributing important and necessary insights. The discussion is backed up by extensive reference to empirical studies.This …
Understanding modern sociology
Executive Problem Finding
R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes, W. W. Sharrock, Executive Problem Finding: Some Material and Initial Observations, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction (Jun., 1987), pp. 143-159
Margaret Gilbert on the social nature of language
Methodological tokenism, or Are good intentions enough
The Ethnomethodologists (Key Sociologists)
Re-Locating Motives
Reality construction’ in L2 simulations
Magic witchcraft and the materialist mentality
Applied Sociological Perspectives
The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology
(1985). The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 221-235
II. Wittgenstein and comparative sociology
Focusing on a discussion by Ruddich and Stassen of the ‘Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough’, this paper shows that some of the usual criticisms made by sociologists of Wittgenstein are misplaced. He does not reject causal explanations of beliefs and actions and replace them with some other form of explanation, but dismisses the idea that any explanation is called for here. His argument that the origin of the desire to explain beliefs is to be found…
The Wittgenstein connection
What's the Point of 'Rescuing Motives
The Persistent Evasion of Technical Problems in Media Studies
In his 'reply' to our paper 'Biasing the News'1 Murdock accuses us of 'misrepresenting media studies'2 and there is a sense in which he must be right, though it is not alas one which enables him to rebut our arguments. A substantial part of our paper was given over to the reanalysis of some of Murdock 's data.3 This is not the part of the paper which attracts interest, and all the oral and written comments we have received have avoided reference …
On the demise of the native
The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic
For Science in the Social Sciences
What's the Point of 'Rescuing Motives
Statistical Practice
As a contribution to current debates on the 'social life of methods', in this article we present an ethnomethodological study of the role of understanding within statistical practice. After reviewing the empirical turn in the methods literature and the challenges to the qualitative-quantitative divide it has given rise to, we argue such case studies are relevant because they enable us to see different ways in which 'methods', here quantitative me…
On the demise of the native
Biasing the News
The first part of the article is a general critique of radical media/cultural studies; the second is an illustration of these criticisms detailed through analysis of one media student's treatment of a newspaper. In general, the authors find media studies do not establish that their reading of materials is the reading made by media consumers; that the bias they allege in the media is not significant; that they set up a false and irrelevant model o…
Reality construction’ in L2 simulations
Institutions and the Person
Re-Locating Motives
Executive Problem Finding
R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes, W. W. Sharrock, Executive Problem Finding: Some Material and Initial Observations, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction (Jun., 1987), pp. 143-159
Magic witchcraft and the materialist mentality
The Persistent Evasion of Technical Problems in Media Studies
In his 'reply' to our paper 'Biasing the News'1 Murdock accuses us of 'misrepresenting media studies'2 and there is a sense in which he must be right, though it is not alas one which enables him to rebut our arguments. A substantial part of our paper was given over to the reanalysis of some of Murdock 's data.3 This is not the part of the paper which attracts interest, and all the oral and written comments we have received have avoided reference …
Perspectives in Sociology
Perspectives in Sociology provides students with a lively and critical introduction to sociology and to the ways in which sociologists are trained to think and work. The subject is presented as a sequence of different perspectives on the social world, all of them interrelated, sometimes in conflict with one another, and all contributing important and necessary insights. The discussion is backed up by extensive reference to empirical studies.This …
The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology
(1985). The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 221-235
II. Wittgenstein and comparative sociology
Focusing on a discussion by Ruddich and Stassen of the ‘Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough’, this paper shows that some of the usual criticisms made by sociologists of Wittgenstein are misplaced. He does not reject causal explanations of beliefs and actions and replace them with some other form of explanation, but dismisses the idea that any explanation is called for here. His argument that the origin of the desire to explain beliefs is to be found…
The Wittgenstein connection
Methodological tokenism, or Are good intentions enough
Institutions and the Person
Explorations in General Theory in Social Science
For Science in the Social Sciences
Biasing the News
The first part of the article is a general critique of radical media/cultural studies; the second is an illustration of these criticisms detailed through analysis of one media student's treatment of a newspaper. In general, the authors find media studies do not establish that their reading of materials is the reading made by media consumers; that the bias they allege in the media is not significant; that they set up a false and irrelevant model o…
Therapeutic Discourse
The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic
The Persistent Evasion of Technical Problems in Media Studies
In his 'reply' to our paper 'Biasing the News'1 Murdock accuses us of 'misrepresenting media studies'2 and there is a sense in which he must be right, though it is not alas one which enables him to rebut our arguments. A substantial part of our paper was given over to the reanalysis of some of Murdock 's data.3 This is not the part of the paper which attracts interest, and all the oral and written comments we have received have avoided reference …
On the demise of the native
II. Wittgenstein and comparative sociology
Focusing on a discussion by Ruddich and Stassen of the ‘Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough’, this paper shows that some of the usual criticisms made by sociologists of Wittgenstein are misplaced. He does not reject causal explanations of beliefs and actions and replace them with some other form of explanation, but dismisses the idea that any explanation is called for here. His argument that the origin of the desire to explain beliefs is to be found…
The Wittgenstein connection
What's the Point of 'Rescuing Motives
Reality construction’ in L2 simulations
Magic witchcraft and the materialist mentality
Applied Sociological Perspectives
The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology
(1985). The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 221-235
Margaret Gilbert on the social nature of language
Methodological tokenism, or Are good intentions enough
The Ethnomethodologists (Key Sociologists)
Re-Locating Motives
Executive Problem Finding
R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes, W. W. Sharrock, Executive Problem Finding: Some Material and Initial Observations, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction (Jun., 1987), pp. 143-159
Understanding modern sociology
Perspectives in Sociology
Perspectives in Sociology provides students with a lively and critical introduction to sociology and to the ways in which sociologists are trained to think and work. The subject is presented as a sequence of different perspectives on the social world, all of them interrelated, sometimes in conflict with one another, and all contributing important and necessary insights. The discussion is backed up by extensive reference to empirical studies.This …
Perspectives in Sociology
From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century, placing them in historical and philosophical context information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century whose relevance to modern soci…
Theory and Methods in Sociology
The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals)
Originally published in 1986, this work examines how key figures such as Garfinkel, Sacks and Cicourel have revolutionised thinking about how sociology's presuppositions about 'being social' are grounded. Yet until the appearance of this book there were no clear and authoritative introductions to the main thinkers in the field or their work. In assessing the critical reception of Ethnomethodology, Sharrock and Anderson argue persuasively that muc…
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