Burns2024
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Burns2024 |
Author(s) | Stacy Lee Burns |
Title | Michael Lynch’s law and science studies: A context and foundation for understanding ethnomethodology |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Michael Lynch |
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Year | 2024 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Ethnographic Studies |
Volume | 20 |
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Pages | 13–32 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.26034/lu.ethns.2024.6910 |
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Abstract
Michael Lynch’s extensive body of scholarship is a lucid and powerful articulation of social order as practical action in a wide variety of workplace settings. Lynch’s investigations of lay/common sense and tech-nical/professional reasoning and activities and how these intertwine provide a context and foundation for a deeper understanding of ethnomethodology. His ‘hybrid studies’ of science and the law show how these two institutional domains interface and collide. This article reviews Lynch’s examination of encounters between science, evidence, and the law, and explores how expertise is tied to the practical contingencies of presenting and contesting ‘science’ and ‘evidence’ in law courts and quasi-legal tribunals. The paper suggests what he found out by focusing on “the constituent features of the [legal] process” as “matters for empirical observation and discovery” (Lynch 1982, 285), and concludes with some reflections on Mike’s intellectual clarity, generosity, and shared contributions to our academic community.
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