Eglin2024
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Eglin2024 |
Author(s) | Peter Eglin |
Title | For Mike Lynch |
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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 | 125-138 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.26034/lu.ethns.2024.6916 |
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Abstract
One came to know that Lynch was Garfinkel’s student. The discipline was sociology, the phenomena were ethnomethodological (Garfinkel 1967) and his initial preoccupation was science—science in practice (Lynch 1985) and science as a practical accomplishment in the light of phenomenology, Wittgenstein, conversation analysis and Garfinkel’s studies of work program (Lynch 1993). But then it was also the criminal law, from congressional committee hearings to plea bargaining to courtroom interaction, including the use of video. And then, like Sharrock, whose prowess he rivals, it was everything—a re-examining and interrogating of sociology’s conceptual foundations, theoretical proclivities and methodological practices (Lynch and Sharrock 2003; Button, Lynch and Sharrock 2022), including ethnomethodo-logy itself! Given that a proper accounting of this astounding corpus of inquiries is a project that exceeds my grasp, what follows is simply a record of my scholarly encounters with the work of this most accomplished sociologist. It starts with sociology in general, moves on to ethnomethodology with a bow to Wittgenstein, then takes in social constructionism before doubling down on criminal law. It borrows heavily from the second edition of A Sociology of Crime (2017) in which Lynch makes numerous appearances. It concludes with his brief reflection on ethnomethodology and politics.
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