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The idea of constitutive order in ethnomethodology

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ID2398045
AuthorsAndrei Korbut (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Андрей Корбут (0000-0003-3835-9863, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume17
Issue4
Pages479-496
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431013516057
OpenAlexW2136549621
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited43

Despite its frequent appearances in sociological textbooks, dictionaries and theoretical opuses, ethnomethodology is still one of the most misunderstood and undervalued domains of sociological inquiry. This is particularly evident in the case of the central sociological question: social order. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, provided a unique answer to the question of order. His answer emphasized a contingent, situated character of constitutive practices of local order production. Initially a response to Talcott Parsons' question about the conditions of the stability of social order, Garfinkel's conception of constitutive order was later radicalized and used as the foundation of the programme of empirical ethnomethodological studies. To properly understand the radical character of the conception and programme, it is necessary to reveal the core elements of it and to separate them from the historically changed components

Character (mathematics · Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Order (exchange · Politics · Situated · Social order · Social science · Sociological theory · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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