Kreplak2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Kreplak2025 |
| Author(s) | Yaël Kreplak, Julia Velkovska |
| Title | Ethnomethodological Ethnography |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnography |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 196–205 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-19 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 16 |
Abstract
The observation and description of social actions in their natural settings are the main focus of interest of both ethnography and ethnomethodology. This feature radically distinguishes them from all other social sciences approaches to social reality. Drawing on their shared concerns for interaction processes, participants’ point of view, and endogenous categories in making sense of everyday world, various handbooks present ethnomethodology as one way, among others, of practising ethnography, that is epistemologically consistent with ethnography’s approach to social action and actors. Yet, those (limited) “family resemblances” are at the heart of discussions about the particular stance of ethnomethodology. Indeed, ethnomethodology’s program draws on a properly internalist and procedural conception of action, that informs all its procedures to study members’ methods and artful practices. So, if ethnomethodology’s concern is (completely) different from other forms of ethnographies, then how does it proceed? As a contribution to ongoing debates and drawing on a body of both classic and recent literature in EMCA, this chapter will discuss conceptual and methodological issues in the conduct of an ethnomethodological ethnography: what to observe and how; how to collect observational materials; how to produce descriptive accounts.
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