ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES

Button, Graham (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0521389526 / ISBN 13: 9780521389525

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993

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8vo. xiii + 278pp., including References and Index. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear, corners slightly worn. Very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521389526
• ISBN 13: 9780521389525
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprint.
• Seller catalogs:
  • SOCIOLOGY

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Synopsis

Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them. This book reappraises the significance of ethnomethodology in sociology in particular, and in the human sciences in general. It demonstrates how, through its empirical enquiries into the ordered properties of social action, ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood. The chapters, by leading scholars, take up the specification of action and order in theorising, logic, epistemology, measurement, evidence, the social actor, cognition, language and culture, and moral judgement, and underscore the ramifications for the human sciences of the ethnomethodologist's approach. This is a systematic and coherent collection which explicitly addresses fundamental conceptual issues. The clear exposition of the central tenets of ethnomethodology is especially welcome.

Review

"These essays furnish much to think about. Most of the points have been well argued before, but these authors trace the contours of the arguments in greater detail and extend them to realms previously unaddressed." Richard A. Hilbert, Contemporary Sociology