Koschmann2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Koschmann2025 |
| Author(s) | Timothy Koschmann |
| Title | Instructed Action and the Thorny Problems of Actor Knowledge |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Instructed Action |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 267–275 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-26 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 22 |
Abstract
There are four elements to an ethnomethodological consideration of knowledge and expertise. First, they are orderly phenomena. They will, therefore, be considered in the light of Garfinkel’s developing view of the problem of order, from his early theory of “communicative effort”, informed by his “correspondence versus coherence” treatment of epistemology, through to his later “central recommendation” about the immanent accountability of social activities. Secondly, communication is effortful and a social action in its own right. This will be described through an examination of Schegloff’s developing view of intersubjectivity and talk as action, and its relationship to the epistemics controversy examined and described. Thirdly, information applies in its use, through “what everyone knows” and the “thingifying of objects”, inter alia. Critiques of conventional understandings of expertise (especially in computer science and artificial intelligence), and the analytical priority of studies of work and the “shop floor problem”, will be considered in light of this trope. Finally, a clear conceptual foundation for studies of expert practice in detail will be advanced, drawing on Garfinkel’s “phenomenological residue” and the problem of adequacy of description.
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