Harper2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Harper2025 |
| Author(s) | Richard H. R. Harper |
| Title | The Temporality of Social Phenomena |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Temporality |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 296–304 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-29 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 25 |
Abstract
In most perspectives in social action, the units of action are treated as determinate outcomes through time – the causal results of social structure say. Harold Garfinkel’s insight into social action takes a quite different view on temporal organisation and turns around a simple observation: when people do things together, it is not predetermined what the outcome of their activities will be. On the contrary, they have to work at making some outcome be the outcome. In this essay I will illustrate an ethnomethodological this point of view on temporality with reference to my studies of air traffic control and the International Monetary Fund; both are very different settings but in each, this emergent, praxiological organisation of action can be observed.
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