Michael S Lynch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4385763 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael S Lynch |
| PRENOMES | Michael S |
| SOBRENOME | Lynch |
| ASSINATURA | LYNCH M S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1016-5090 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 114 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1301 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 18 |
Obituary
Promise and Silence
Proverbial economies of STS
This article discusses examples from an extended family of aphorisms, stories, and themes that have circulated widely in STS and remain associated with the formation and integration of the field. Drawing upon Harvey Sacks’s insightful remarks about features of everyday conversation, which he related to ancient practices in oral culture, we argue that familiar citation magnets in STS operate in many respects like proverbs, parables, and an extende…
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
This article focuses on various ethnographic procedures and findings in ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation analysis (CA), addressing the question of how EM and CA relate to ethnography. Given the obvious answer that EM includes ethnography, we also argue that CA does as well, though just how EM and CA do so needs to be qualified and specified. Ethnographic procedures have been used in EM for decades, although often in non-standard ways, and c…
L'analysabilité de l'interaction entre humains et animaux
The Family Engagement Practice Framework
Objective This study developed a practice framework to identify and explain family engagement practice for school‐based service delivery. Background School–family–community partnerships expand the possibilities for family engagement by providing comprehensive services to families and children. No research to date has explored practitioners' perspectives of family engagement practice, and few practice frameworks exist to guide family engagement ef…
Podcasting as a Pedagogical Tool for Experiential Learning in Social Work Education
Although pedagogical fundamentals of teaching with technology appear in the literature, the use of podcasting in the classroom is primarily documented outside of social work education. This study explored outcomes of an assignment in which students create podcasts meant for consumption by people besides the instructor. The authors theorized that this would allow social work students to build skills with engagement, self-awareness and communicatio…
Introduction to Harold Garfinkel's Ethnomethodological "Misreading" of Aron Gurwitsch on the Phenomenal Field
This article is the editors’ introduction to the transcript of a lecture that Harold Garfinkel delivered to a seminar in 1993. Garfinkel extensively discusses the relevance of Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological treatment of Gestalt theory for ethnomethodology. Garfinkel uses the term “misreading” to signal a respecification of Gurwitsch’s phenomenological investigations, and particularly his conceptions of contextures, functional significations, a…
Themes and tones of cannabis news reports and legalization outcomes
This project analyzed print news articles on cannabis legalization that were published in 2015 ( N = 295) from newspapers across the United States. The following year, 2016, saw more states legalize cannabis for adult use and medical use than before. Therefore, one goal of this research was to investigate the relationship between reports on cannabis legalization and subsequent legal changes that occurred in states that reformed their cannabis law…
Are you asking me or are you telling me
This paper is an analysis of a video clip of an interview between a reporter and ice hockey player following a game in which the player was involved in a hard collision with a member of the opposing team. The paper explores blame attribution and how participants claim and disclaim expertise in a way that supports or undermines assertions to have correctly seen and assessed the actions shown on tape. Our analysis focuses on the video of the interv…
New Directions in Congressional Politics
"As the U.S. Congress has steadily evolved since the Founding of our nation, so too has our understanding of the institution. The second edition of New Directions in Congressional Politics offers an accessible overview of the current developments in our understanding of America's legislative branch. Jamie L. Carson and Michael S. Lynch help students bridge the gap between roles, rules, and outcomes by focusing on a variety of thematic issues: the…
Garfinkel, Sacks and Formal Structures
Questions of Order in the U.S. Senate
Objectives Scholarship on the U.S. Senate has demonstrated the pivotal role the presiding officer can play when asked to interpret the chamber's rules and precedents. Therefore, our objective is to broadly evaluate how questions of order are arbitrated in the U.S. Senate. Methods Using a multinomial logistic regression, we estimate the effect of partisanship on adjudicating questions of order in the Senate before and after the institutionalizatio…
Friends and Neighbors’ Voting Under Mixed-Member Majoritarian Electoral Systems
The concept of 'friends and neighbors' voting, in which voters are more likely to support locally-affiliated candidates, has a long tradition in the study of elections and representation. The concept was established in the study of American politics and has been tested in other political and social environments. The focus of 'friends and neighbors' voting has been on single and multi-seat constituency-based elections. This emphasis leaves open an…
The Vice President in the U.S. Senate
The constitutional placement of the vice president as the president of the Senate gives procedural control of the Senate to an individual who is not elected by the chamber. We argue that because the vice president frequently acts against the wishes of Senate majorities, senators have been reluctant to allow chamber power to be centralized under their largely unaccountable presiding officer. This fear has had a major influence on Senate developmen…
STS, symmetry and post-truth
This essay takes up a series of questions about the connection between 'symmetry' in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and 'post-truth' in contemporary politics. A recent editorial in this journal by Sergio Sismondo argues that current discussions of 'post-truth' have little to do with conceptions of 'symmetry' or with concerns about 'epistemic democracy' in STS, while others, such as Steve Fuller and Harry Collins, insist that there are such …
Kansas Voter ID Laws
Previous studies have sought to assess the aggregate impact new voter identification (ID) laws have on voter turnout. In this study, we extend on this research by considering how the advertising of voter ID laws can affect voters’ perception of these laws and how these perceptions may affect individuals’ decisions to turnout. In Kansas, county clerks were given discretion in how to advertise new voter ID laws. Employing a quasi-experimental desig…
Social Constructivism in Science and Technology Studies
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 1
The expression ‘Oh’ in natural conversation is a signal topic in the development of the Epistemic Program (EP). This article attempts to bring into view a sense of place for this simple expression in the early literature, beginning with ‘Oh’ as a ‘change-of-state token’ and through its subsequent treatments in the production of assessments. It reviews them with an interest in two allied developments. One is the rendering of ‘Oh’ as an expression …
The Cost of Majority‐Party Bias
All major legislation in the House necessitates a special rule from the Rules Committee before it can be brought to the chamber floor. These rules often strictly limit floor amendments to bills considered by the House. Scholars of political parties have argued that the House majority party can bias policy output away from the floor median through its usage of restrictive rules. In this article, we argue that in order to secure the passage of rest…
The epistemics of Epistemics
Reverting to a hidden interactional order
This article critically examines the relations between epistemics in conversation analysis (CA) and linguistic and cognitivist conceptions of communicative interaction that emphasize information and information transfer. The epistemic program (EP) adheres to the focus on recorded instances of talk-in-interaction that is characteristic of CA, explicitly identifies its theoretical origins with ethnomethodology, and points to implications of its res…
Nuclear Fallout
On November 21, 2013, U.S. Senate Democrats utilized the long threatened “nuclear option,” thereby allowing a simple-majority of the chamber to end debate on lower federal court judicial nominations. Formal theory predicts that this change should permit the president to nominate more ideologically extreme nominees. By comparing President Obama’s nominees before and after the Senate’s change to the confirmation process, we are able to provide the …
How Presidential Running Mates Influence Turnout
Primaries frequently exacerbate ideological divisions within a party. When parties select more moderate candidates whom they believe will appeal to a broader audience, the nominee must find a way to win over their party’s base. We investigate the potential rewards of using the vice presidential nominee to increase voter turnout among those ideologically alienated by a party’s moderate nominee. We also examine the risks of a more extreme vice pres…
Genius, Hawking, and expertise
Against Reflexivity as an Academic Virtue and Source of Privileged Knowledge
Reflexivity is a well-established theoretical and methodological concept in the human sciences, and yet it is used in a confusing variety of ways. The meaning of 'reflexivity' and the virtues ascribed to the concept are relative to particular theoretical and methodological commitments. This article examines several versions of the concept, and critically focuses on treatments of reflexivity as a mark of distinction or source of methodological adv…
Understanding Local Adoption and Implementation of Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Increasingly, local governments are crafting policy to tackle climate change. This article examines why cities develop and implement climate change programs. The authors consider the impact of interest group pressure, political institutions, and problem severity on a city’s decision to develop and implement climate protection programs. Their results suggest that organized interests influence both adoption and implementation of climate mitigation …
Discipline and the Material Form of Images
This paper is about how natural objects are made visible and analyzable in scientific research. It is argued that the objects scientists actually work upon are highly artificial, in that their visibility depends upon complex instruments and careful preparatory procedures. Instruments and laboratory procedures do more than provide a window to the world; they lay the groundwork for specific analytic operations which utilize literary resources to re…
Harvey Sacks's Primitive Natural Science
Ontography
In this postscript to the special issue of Social Studies of Science on the ‘turn to ontology’ in science and technology studies, I discuss a tension that runs through many of the articles in the issue. This is a tension between adopting a general philosophical ontology and pursuing empirical studies of particular historical and contemporary practices. The general ontology highlights multiplicity and difference and rejects the idea that, for exam…
Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing
The Dissemination, Standardization and Routinization of a Molecular Biological Technique
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a molecular biological technique for `amplifying' selected DNA sequences. In the decade after its invention, PCR has worked its way into numerous fields of practice. It was one of the DNA-profiling techniques which were subjected to detailed, critical scrutiny during the OJ Simpson trial. In this paper we `follow the technique around' to investigate how PCR is adapted to different circumstances in science, m…
Science and Technology Studies on Trial
This paper discusses materials from a legal case, People v. Hyatt (2001). This was a criminal case in which one of the authors (Simon Cole) agreed to appear as an expert witness for the defense. Cole’s expertise derived from his research in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and so his appearance in the case exemplified STS research engaging in a public controversy about a contested form of ‘scientific’ knowledge. Cole’s STS work …
The externalized retina
The Discursive Production of Uncertainty
DNA `fingerprinting' and other methods of genetic profiling have been used in connection with hundreds of criminal trials in the UK, USA and other nations. These molecular biological techniques are employed by the prosecution (and less often by the defense) to produce forensic evidence. By means of these techniques, selected DNA fragments extracted from a suspect's blood sample or cheek swab are compared with residues of blood, semen, skin, excre…
Silence in context
Introduction
STS, symmetry and post-truth
This essay takes up a series of questions about the connection between 'symmetry' in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and 'post-truth' in contemporary politics. A recent editorial in this journal by Sergio Sismondo argues that current discussions of 'post-truth' have little to do with conceptions of 'symmetry' or with concerns about 'epistemic democracy' in STS, while others, such as Steve Fuller and Harry Collins, insist that there are such …
Laboratory Space and the Technological Complex
The ArgumentThere can be no doubt about the moral and epistemological significance of what Shapin (1988) calls the "physical place" of the scientific laboratory. The physical place is defined by the locales, barriers, ports of entry, and lines of sight that bound the laboratory and separate it from other urban and architectural environments. Shapin's discussion of the emergence of the scientific laboratory in seventeenth-century England provides …
Making PCR
Adding Recess Appointments to the President's “Tool Chest” of Unilateral Powers
In the struggle to control the federal bureaucracy, presidents have an overlooked but powerful tool: the recess appointment. By making recess appointments, presidents can fill vacancies without the advice and consent of the Senate. The authors delineate three conditions that define presidential unilateral powers and demonstrate how recess appointments fit within that paradigm. Presidents, the authors argue, should be more likely to make recess ap…
Archives in formation
The article begins with Derrida’s etymology of the word ‘archive’: a privileged site to which records are officially consigned and in which they are guarded by legal authority. It explores contemporary variations on the theme of archive. The cases presented include efforts to construct scholarly archives that stand as personal monuments, struggles over the collection and consignment of records during official investigations of government scandals…
A Theory Waiting to Be Discovered and Used
The paper offers a reassessment of canonical attempts to address a fundamental question about majority rule: what is the relationship between the preferences held by the participants and the outcomes that emerge from their interactions? Previous work, based on the analysis of abstract spatial models or relying on data from real-world spatial experiments, has yielded a mass of contradictory findings. Our work applies a new technique for estimating…
Reverting to a hidden interactional order
This article critically examines the relations between epistemics in conversation analysis (CA) and linguistic and cognitivist conceptions of communicative interaction that emphasize information and information transfer. The epistemic program (EP) adheres to the focus on recorded instances of talk-in-interaction that is characteristic of CA, explicitly identifies its theoretical origins with ethnomethodology, and points to implications of its res…
From naturally occurring data to naturally organized ordinary activities
Pictures of Nothing? Visual Construals in Social Theory
This paper builds upon ethnomethodological and social constructivist studies of representation in the natural sciences to examine sociological theory, afield that is much closer to home. An analysis of diagrams and related illustrations in theory texts shows that labels, geometric boundaries, vectors, and symmetries often are used to convey a sense of orderlyflows of causal influences in a homogeneousfield. These graphic elements make up what I c…
Cognitive activities without cognition? ethnomethodological investigations of selected ‘cognitive’ topics
Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (ethno/CA) investigate many of the activities that are featured in the cognitive sciences. These include memory, learning, perception, and calculative activities. However, for ethno/CA such activities are not necessarily ‘cognitive’, and their investigation as activities does not necessarily require observation or speculation about what goes on within the mind or brain. This article briefly discusses thr…
Contested Identities
Introduction to Harold Garfinkel's Ethnomethodological "Misreading" of Aron Gurwitsch on the Phenomenal Field
This article is the editors’ introduction to the transcript of a lecture that Harold Garfinkel delivered to a seminar in 1993. Garfinkel extensively discusses the relevance of Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological treatment of Gestalt theory for ethnomethodology. Garfinkel uses the term “misreading” to signal a respecification of Gurwitsch’s phenomenological investigations, and particularly his conceptions of contextures, functional significations, a…
The epistemics of Epistemics
The 'Faithful Brethren'of Edinburgh
Journal Article The ‘Faithful Brethren'of Edinburgh: the Acceptable Face of Protestantism Get access MICHAEL LYNCH MICHAEL LYNCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 51, Issue 124, November 1978, Pages 194–199, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1978.tb01881.x Published: 12 October 2007
Short notices
Claudia Ulbrich, Leibherrschaft am Oberrhein im Spatmittelalter (Veröffentlichungen des Max‐Planck‐Instituts für Geschichte 58) (1979), 327 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 70). (Serfdom on the Upper Rhine in the Later Middle Ages) Mervyn James, English Politics and the Concept of Honour, 1485–1642 (1978), 92 (Oxford, Past and Present, Supplement 3, £1.75). Walter Makey, The Church of the Covenant, 1637–1651: Revolution and Social Change in…
The Petroleum Industry in Oil Importing Developing Countries
Natural Gas
Whatever Happened to the Medieval Burgh? Some Guidelines for Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Historians
The World after Oil
Arab Oil Policies in the 1970's
Geopolitics of Natural Gas
Turning Up Signs' in Neurobehavioral Diagnosis
Discipline and the Material Form of Images
This paper is about how natural objects are made visible and analyzable in scientific research. It is argued that the objects scientists actually work upon are highly artificial, in that their visibility depends upon complex instruments and careful preparatory procedures. Instruments and laboratory procedures do more than provide a window to the world; they lay the groundwork for specific analytic operations which utilize literary resources to re…
Energy Economics and Foreign Policy in the Soviet Union
International Gas Trade in Europe
L. J. Macfarlane, William Elphinstone and the kingdom of Scotland, 1431–1514
Ethnométhodologie et pratique scientifique
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Credibility as an Interactional Accomplishment
Although assumptions about "truthfulness" are necessarily involved in everyday social interaction, individuals rarely try explicitly to "test" one another's credibility. The trial court, and particularly the cross-examination of testimony, is one social occasion where such "testing" of credibility is done. In this article we analyze the cross-examination of a defendant accused of perjury in order to elucidate how credibility (or its lack) is esta…
The externalized retina
Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing
Introduction
Social critique and the logic of description
Laboratory Space and the Technological Complex
The ArgumentThere can be no doubt about the moral and epistemological significance of what Shapin (1988) calls the "physical place" of the scientific laboratory. The physical place is defined by the locales, barriers, ports of entry, and lines of sight that bound the laboratory and separate it from other urban and architectural environments. Shapin's discussion of the emergence of the scientific laboratory in seventeenth-century England provides …
In Defense of Dada-Driven Analysis
For a writing to be a writing it must continue to act and to be readable even when what is called the author of the writing no longer answers for what he has written, for what he seems to have signed, be it because of a temporary absence, because he is dead or, more generally, because he has not employed his absolutely actual and present intention or attention, the plenitude of his desire to say what he means, order to sustain what seems to be wr…
Pictures of Nothing? Visual Construals in Social Theory
This paper builds upon ethnomethodological and social constructivist studies of representation in the natural sciences to examine sociological theory, afield that is much closer to home. An analysis of diagrams and related illustrations in theory texts shows that labels, geometric boundaries, vectors, and symmetries often are used to convey a sense of orderlyflows of causal influences in a homogeneousfield. These graphic elements make up what I c…
Urbanisation and Urban Networks in Seventeenth Century Scotland
On making explicit
Goethe's `Protestant Reformation' as a Textual Demonstration
This Comment takes its point of departure from Myles Jackson's historical study of Goethe's attempt to incite a `protestant reformation' in colour theory. According to Jackson, Goethe tried to unseat the remote authority of Newton's science in favour of a science grounded in non-specialized personal knowledge. Goethe's natural-philosophical texts, as we shall demonstrate, involve readers in a firsthand engagement with the actual experimental mate…
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