McHoul1981
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | McHoul1981 |
Author(s) | Alec McHoul |
Title | Ethnomethodology and the position of relativist discourse |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnomethodology |
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Year | 1981 |
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Journal | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour |
Volume | 11 |
Number | 2 |
Pages | 107–124 |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1981.tb00028.x |
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Abstract
The paper works through the topic of ‘theorising’ as it has been treated in ethnomethodology. It is concerned to show (a) that the topic has a somewhat equivocal status within that discourse; (b) that some recent self-critical moves in ethnomethodology which have been touched off by considering these problems constitute no more than further uncritical repetitions of that discourse; (c) that ethnomethodology’s critics have been concentrating unnecessarily upon its supposed ‘idealism’ and have missed a central trouble: that ethnomethodology is an overly realist form of social scientific work.
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