Life-World-Analytical Ethnography

Honer, Anne; Hitzler, Ronald

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“…Whilst the recording of actions creates distance between the ethnomethodologist and the field, the possibility to review short fragments of data repeatedly and to examine still frames provide ethnomethodologists with unprecedented closeness to the action. Recordings cannot replace researcher's "existential engagement" (Honer and Hitzler 2015) with the field but they allow ethnomethodologists to reconstruct the prospective and retrospective orientation of action. Thus, the data enable the recovery of the participants' attitude to the situation at hand.…”

Section: Ethnomethodological Analysis Of Interactionmentioning

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From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction

Lehn

2019

Hum Stud

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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 their analysis of immediately prior actions and in anticipation of possible next actions. Ethnomethodologists describe the relationship of actions emerging from this analysis as "sequential". This article discusses how Garfinkel's description of practical action as "experiment in miniature" can be seen as a precursor to the concept of "sequentiality" that defines today's ethnomethodological analysis of interaction. Having discussed the intellectual background to ethnomethodology the article briefly explores two fragments of interaction audio-/ video-recorded in a museum and an optometric consultation to illustrate the key concerns of this kind of analysis. The article closes with a short reflection on current developments in ethnomethodology and their relationship to sociology.

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Section: Ethnomethodological Analysis Of Interactionmentioning

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From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction

Lehn

2019

Hum Stud

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“…As a researcher, one should therefore use the immediate access to one's own subjective experience, for example of a rave, to conduct a methodologically controlled phenomenological analysis of the experienced -that is, the experiences and their correlates -through systematic reductions (or bracketing) (Hitzler 2005 ). In contrast to other ethnographic approaches, the "native's point of view" is not understood indirectly, but is complemented by an "existential view from the inside" (Honer 2004 ). The structures of the life-world as a mathesis universalis are not drawn into question but understood as the basis of sociological analysis through this approach.…”

Section: Life-world Analysis and Interpretative Social Researchmentioning

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“…Most of them are ethnographic in character, that is, they conduct empirical fi eld research by way of multiple methods like observation, ethnographic interviews, or document and artifact analysis. One ethnographic approach that draws heavily on Schutz's mundane-phenomenological analysis of the life-world is the life-world analytic ethnography (Pfadenhauer 2008 ), earlier called "life-worldy ethnography" (Honer 1993 ), "ethnographic life-world analysis" or "life-world analysis in ethnography" (Honer 2004 ). On the one hand, in the course of such research, data is collected via participant observation, interviews, and the acquisition of fi eld documents and interpreted hermeneutically, much like in other ethnographic approaches.…”

Section: Life-world Analysis and Interpretative Social Researchmentioning

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Methodological Implications of Phenomenological Life-World Analysis

Eberle

2013

Contributions to Phenomenology

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Alfred Schutz's work is obviously multilayered and can thus be examined from a variety of perspectives. His central motive, however, was, without question, the contribution of an analysis of the life-world to the methodology of the social sciences. The avowed goal of his major work The Phenomenology of the Social World was to develop a "philosophically founded theory of method" for social scientifi c research (Schutz 1967 : xxxi). Despite the various topical ramifi cations of his work, Schutz never lost sight of this goal. Accordingly, his blueprints for the structure of his planned opus The Structures of the Life-World features a chapter titled "Sciences of 1 the Life-World" (Schutz and Luckmann 1973 : xxii) as a quasi-crowning conclusion. In this concluding work, the diverse facets of the phenomenological analysis of the life-world were therefore arranged to culminate in a philosophical founding of the sciences of the life-world. Since Luckmann decided to excise this chapter, when editing the Structures posthumously, interpreters of Schutz less familiar with the entirety of the corpus have sometimes lost sight of this fundamental objective. This article then looks to explicate and discuss some methodological implications of the phenomenological life-world analysis for the social sciences. My line of argumentation goes as follows: In the fi rst chapter I discuss Schutz's original plans for a philosophical foundation for the methodology of the social sciences. I begin with his refl ections in The Phenomenology of the Social World and present his plan for the fi nal, omitted chapter of the The Structures of the Life-World on the basis of his index cards. In the second chapter I briefl y sketch Schutz's postulates of social-scientifi c constructs and focus in the third chapter on the postulate of adequacy which is the crucial one.

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“…She is, perhaps, the "mouthpiece" or, in Goffman's words (1981), the "loudspeaker," of the divine. It is by way of this comparison that we contribute to an understanding of the life-world (Schutz and Luckmann 1989) and, thus, conduct "life-world ethnography" (Honer 2004), even when Mary, Jesus, or even a God figure. In terms of the phenomenology of religion, the participation status (Goffman 1981) of the seers with reference to the locution is quite significant.…”

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Video and Vision

Knoblauch

Schnettler

2015

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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In this article, we sketch the field of qualitative video-analysis and locate videography within this. Instead of presenting the methods of videography formally, we illustrate the application of this method in a particular field: Marian apparitions occurring in a German town in 1999, captured live on video. The presentation of the method in this paper follows a general methodological structure. (1) We first outline the ethnographic context of the setting in which the video-recordings were made. This context includes actors, religious associations, and locations as well as some aspects of the apparitional events' historical genesis. (2) We then turn to look at the performance of the Marian vision as recorded in the video. By applying sequential analysis, we roughly identify a temporal order to the event, which exhibits an interesting deviation from earlier forms of apparitions due to the way it takes a subjectively "spiritual" form. This finding leads us to finally (3) address the role of the subjective perspective that, as we argue, is a further essential dimension of videography. It is on this level that we are made aware of the relevance of the life-world as a methodological background for the kind of interpretive social science that takes the actor's perspective into account.

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Life-World-Analytical Ethnography

Cited by 64 publications

References 34 publications

From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction

From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction

Methodological Implications of Phenomenological Life-World Analysis

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