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Fox2006
BibType ARTICLE
Key Fox2006
Author(s) Stephen Fox
Title “Inquiries of every imaginable kind”: ethnomethodology, practical action and the new socially situated learning theory
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Learning
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Year 2006
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Journal Sociological Review
Volume 54
Number 3
Pages 426–445
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DOI 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00624.x
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Abstract

This paper examines the increasing interest in practice-based theorising in the new social learning theory. It argues that this body of work does not pay sufficient attention to ethnomethodology's understanding of practical action. The paper then illustrates ethnomethodology's approach to understanding practical action, highlighting the concepts of ‘inquiry’ and ‘work’, and drawing upon examples from two phases in Garfinkel's work. Potential implications are then discussed for the new practice-based social learning theory and conclusions are drawn.

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