Suchman-etal2019

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Suchman-etal2019
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Lucy Suchman, Dominik Gerst, Hannes Krämer
Title ”If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them”
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Tag(s) EMCA, ethnomethodology, Garfinkel, human-machine interaction, science and technology studies, feminism, mundane practices, mutual intelligibility, documentary method, intervening social science
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Year 2019
Language English
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Journal Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Volume 20
Number 2
Pages Art. 1
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DOI 10.17169/fqs-20.2.3252
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Abstract

With her book "Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication," Lucy SUCHMAN (1987) not only opened up a whole new domain of scientific interest but also showed how the scope of ethnomethodological inquiry can be widened in a fruitful way. Since then she is best known for her extensive contributions to the field of science and technology studies. In this interview, SUCHMAN gives insights into how she brought ethnomethodological sensibilities to new research fields, including human-machine interaction and feminist scholarship. She shares personal anecdotes of her meetings with Harold GARFINKEL and reflects upon key ethnomethodological elements such as the analysis of mundane practices and the fundamental sociality of mutual intelligibility. Discussing the relevance for material studies and how ethnomethodology can contribute to a politically engaged social science, SUCHMAN strikingly demonstrates the actuality of ethnomethodology's program.

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