Garfinkel2023

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Garfinkel2023
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Garfinkel2023
Author(s) Harold Garfinkel
Title Praxeological Validity of Instructed Action
Editor(s) Michael Lynch, Oskar Lindwall
Tag(s) EMCA, Instructed Action
Publisher Routledge
Year 2023
Language English
City London
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Journal
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Pages 21–36
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DOI 10.4324/9781003279235-3
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Howpublished
Book title Instructed and Instructive Actions: The Situated Production, Reproduction, and Subversion of Social Order
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Abstract

This chapter is an edited transcript of a lecture by Harold Garfinkel that was delivered in 1992 as part of a seminar meeting at the University of California, Los Angeles. Garfinkel introduces a set of themes, examples, exercises, and anecdotes that make up his methodological and pedagogical approach to what he calls instructed action. He presents instructed action in terms of a formal pairing of instructions (rules, recipes, direction maps, and so on) and the “lived-work” of following them in specific instances. He outlines how ethnomethodological research not only examines and describes such lived-work in detail but also aims to show that, and how, “the work of reading the text of a description exhibits the phenomenon that the text describes.” This is what he calls the “praxeological validity of instructed action.” He provides examples of a procedure for turning Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophical remark, “existence is the process whereby the hitherto meaningless becomes meaningful,” into an instruction for explicating practical achievements in specific settings of action.

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Edited by Michael Lynch and Oskar Lindwall