Eglin2009

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Eglin2009
BibType ARTICLE
Key Eglin2009
Author(s) Peter Eglin
Title What do we do Wednesday? On beginning the class as university-specific work: A preliminary study
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Instructional settings, University, Context, Membership Categorization
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Year 2009
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Journal Canadian Review of Sociology
Volume 46
Number 1
Pages 39–57
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DOI 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2009.01202.x
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Abstract

I pose the question—just what is university-specific about the activities of universities?—and address it ethnomethodologically in a preliminary way by examining the interactional accomplishment of what is, for the parties present, observably and reportably the beginning of a class at a university. Pursuing an answer to the question, given the audiotaped data to hand, turns on members' reflexive use of the categorical, sequential, and otherwise contextual resources made available by the setting. The questions of the analytic significance of the documentary method of interpretation and of the abstractness of membership categories are briefly taken up.

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