Seeing Sociologically

Garfinkel, Harold; Rawls, Anne Warfield; Lemert, Charles

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“…Firstly, the origins of the commitments we describe lie just as much in the European philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Winch and Alfred Schutz as they do with the work of Garfinkel (Garfinkel 1964(Garfinkel , 1967(Garfinkel , 2002(Garfinkel , 2006. In brief summary, this implied a careful examination of the nature of concept use and some scepticism about representational views of the mind (see e.g.…”

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Ethnography, CSCW and Ethnomethodology

Randall

Rouncefield

Tolmie

2020

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This paper documents some details and some examples of the influence of ethnomethodological work in the fieldwork tradition associated with European CSCW; in particular what has been termed ‘ethnomethodologically informed ethnography’. In so doing, we do not wish to downplay other perspectival and methodological contributions but to simply suggest that much of the ethnomethodological work that was done in the UK during the early development of CSCW had a distinctive character and made significant contributions to the study of complex organizational environments for design-related purposes that arguably reinvigorated the European fieldwork tradition. The distinctiveness we speak of in ‘ethnomethodologically informed ethnography’ had to do with what it owed to Wittgenstein and Winch as much as Garfinkel and Sacks, was rooted in a contempt for methodological fetishism, and emphasized the centrality of reasoning or rationale in the conduct of working and, more generally, social life. This focus and approach drew heavily on the ethnographic work of the likes of John Hughes in Lancaster, Wes Sharrock in Manchester, Bob Anderson at Xerox in Cambridge, and Christian Heath in King’s, London, where attention was focused on the actual ‘doing’ of work as opposed to work in some idealised form – and it is this that we suggest has become important to design and designers of various kinds and in various domains.

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Section: Introduction: Ethnomethodologically Informed Ethnographymentioning

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Ethnography, CSCW and Ethnomethodology

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Rouncefield

Tolmie

2020

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“…For example, drawing upon Garfinkel's (1967) work on juror's decision making, Jones and Corsby (2015) made the case that coaches' decision making was an act of consensus. Indeed, if such work is marked by a distinct pressure for progression (as coaching certainly is), Garfinkel's (2006) treatment of 'conduct', which refers to meaningful or intentional action, can provide clarity on the social structuring and agreement accomplished by coaches' sense-making actions. Doing so, increasingly positions coaching as situated employment, whilst allowing an investigation of its doing as "local, intelligible practice" (Ten Have, 2002, p. 5).…”

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“…Drawing upon ethnomethodological attention to social order (Garfinkel, 2006), the aim of this article was to deconstruct contextual actors' (i.e., sports coaches) interactions, paying specific attention to the rational properties of conduct, as well as to the conditions under which such behaviours occur. The paper thus, explores the dominant taken-for-granted social rules evident at Bayside Rovers Football Club (all names used are pseudonym) and how, in turn, they were acted out by those who comprised the context.…”

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Complicity, performance, and the ‘doing’ of sports coaching: An ethnomethodological study of work

Corsby

Jones

2019

The Sociological Review

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Recent attempts to ‘decode’ the everyday actions of coaches have furthered the case for sports coaching as a detailed site of ‘work’. Adhering to Harold Garfinkel’s ethnomethodological project, the aim of this article is to deconstruct contextual actors’ interactions, paying specific attention to the conditions under which such behaviours occur. The article thus explores the dominant taken-for-granted social rules evident at Bayside Rovers Football F.C. (pseudonym), a semi-professional football club. A 10-month ethnomethodologically informed ethnography was used to observe, participate in and describe the Club’s everyday practices. The findings comprise two principal ‘codes’ through which the work of the Club was manifest: ‘to play well’ and ‘fitting-in’. In turn, Garfinkel’s writings are used as a ‘respecification’ of some fundamental aspects of coaches’ ‘unnoticed’ work and the social rules that guide them. The broader value of this article not only lies in its detailed presentation of a relatively underappreciated work context, but that the fine-grain analysis offered allows insightful abstraction to other more conventional forms of work, thus contributing to the broader interpretive project.

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“…Conventional disciplinary history did not account for their longstanding collaboration with Parsons or for the disdain and outright disrespect for their work in later decades. By contrast, the wartime narrative offers a plausible context for Garfinkel’s defense of both Znaniecki and Parsons in early papers (Garfinkel 1946, 2006 [1948]) and the consistent attempts by both to establish research on the interactional parameters of Durkheim’s social facts.…”

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The wartime narrative in US sociology, 1940–1947

Rawls

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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This is an article about the history of US sociology with systematic intent. It goes back to World War II to recover a wartime narrative context through which sociologists formulated a ‘trauma’ to the discipline and ‘blamed’ qualitative and values-oriented research for damaging the scientific status of sociology. This narrative documents a discussion of the changes that sociologists said needed to be made in sociology as a science to repair its status and reputation. While debates among sociologists about theory and method had always been contentious, the wartime narrative insisted for the first time that sociology be immediately unified around quantitative approaches. The narrative of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ science that developed during the war not only undermined the efforts of social interactionists to theorize social action and social justice, but also derailed Parsons’ pre-war effort to bridge differences. The moral coding that is the legacy of the narrative stigmatized important approaches to sociology, leading to a ‘crisis’ in the 1960s that still haunts the discipline. Disciplinary history has overlooked the wartime narrative with the result that the role played by World War II in effecting this crisis has gone unrecognized.

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Seeing Sociologically

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Ethnography, CSCW and Ethnomethodology

Ethnography, CSCW and Ethnomethodology

Complicity, performance, and the ‘doing’ of sports coaching: An ethnomethodological study of work

The wartime narrative in US sociology, 1940–1947

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