Ethnomethodology and Sociology

An Introduction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3133468
AutoresStephen Linstead (0000-0002-1006-2921, University of York, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume54
Fascículo3
Páginas399-404
Data de publicação2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.2006.00622.x
OpenAlexW2139043041
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas8

Arising as a powerful challenge to programmatic views of sociology that sought to determine stable laws underpinning social order, ethnomethodology set out an alternative programme to reveal social order as a dynamic, contingent 'ongoing accomplishment'. This programme was neither micro nor macro, but was concerned with different contexts of accountability in which both individuals and institutions are given identity and reproduced. Recognising everyday life as an achievement, collective sense making, and the central importance of talk as a social process, ethnomethodology had an impact on all those arenas of sociology where ordinary interaction is an element. This introduction to the special section discusses the contributions of each of the papers - which cover mundane reasoning, social learning, the early acquisition of social competence, and the application of membership categorization analysis to gender - in relation to the continuing relevance of Garfinkel's legacy to contemporary sociological theory and practice

Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Legitimation · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of culture · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law