Fitzgerald2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Fitzgerald2025 |
| Author(s) | Richard Fitzgerald |
| Title | Sacks and Garfinkel: On Ethnomethodological and Sociological Inquiry |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Harold Garfinkel, Harvey Sacks |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 62–70 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-6 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 5 |
Abstract
In this chapter, I draw upon the Sacks archive and focus on the two main approaches that Sacks contributed to during his life: ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The chapter focuses on a transcribed 1962 seminar between Garfinkel and Sacks, in which it is possible to trace mutual agreement on basic ethnomethodological concerns but also their different emphases. Within their discussion, Garfinkel highlights the practices of professional sociologists; whereas Sacks does not regard professional sociology to be where most sociological inquiry is being done. Sacks is thus less interested in looking at what professional sociologists do. Although this difference in emphasis is subtle, the ramifications for the directions of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis are profound.
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