Bjelic2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Bjelic2025 |
| Author(s) | Dušan Bjelić |
| Title | Instructed Action as Non-Foundationalist Foundations |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 153–160 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-15 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 13 |
Abstract
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early work has inspired logical positivism and its effort to lay the epistemological foundations for “proper structures of knowledge”. His late work, on the other hand, passionately argued against such philosophical constructions of knowledge, claiming that logical positivists confused grounds (providing a reason) with foundations “language games” as “forms of life”. As there is no rationality underpinning “language games” this common and un-grounded interrelated matrix of common activities is not to be explained, but rather described in terms of their own local production. Ethnomethodology provides just such a method. Rather than generalising formal structures and relying on the classical methodology of quantitative and qualitative research, ethnomethodology possesses a coherent detail of order as an instructively re-specified singularity by way of engaging varieties of “language games” such as “look at this!”, “try that!”, “repeat this!” “cut there!” etc. Much like Wittgenstein’s philosophy’s book-keeping task, ethnomethodology’s policies also propose a book-keeping of instructed actions as a collection of practical tools for the production of “immortal society”.
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