Fele2008

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Fele2008
BibType ARTICLE
Key Fele2008
Author(s) Giolo Fele
Title The phenomenal field: Ethnomethodological perspectives on collective phenomena
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ritual, Ethnomethodology, Garfinkel
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Year 2008
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Journal Human Studies
Volume 31
Number 3
Pages 299–322
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DOI 10.1007/s10746-008-9099-4
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Abstract

The aim of my paper is twofold. First, I show how the notion of phenomenal field can be used to examine, describe and understand particular collective patterns pertaining to the everyday domain of our common social experience. Secondly, I outline the role of the notion of “phenomenal field” in ethnomethodology. I briefly discuss Gurwitsch’s notion of functional meaning. After presenting the argument, I show “the locally achieved ordinariness of a common task”, that is the lining up of the player of the two teams in the pitch, as an embodied coherence of figural contexture in its empirical perceptual details, as Garfinkel says.

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