McHoul1981

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McHoul1981
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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