Meehan2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Meehan2025 |
| Author(s) | Albert J. Meehan |
| Title | Egon Bittner's Place in Ethnomethodology |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Egon Bittner |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 71–79 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-7 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 6 |
Abstract
My goal is to further ground Egon Bittner’s critical contributions to ethnomethodological studies, starting from festschrift papers through to close examination of Bittner’s published works and unpublished materials, e.g. draft manuscripts, correspondence, etc., in order to highlight ethnomethodological influences. Specifically, I discuss: a) Bittner’s co-authored contribution to Studies in Ethnomethodology, “Good Organizational Reasons for Bad Clinic Records” and its import for studies of the organisational use and career of records in bureaucratic settings; b) Bittner’s grant proposal that funded his classic study of skid row, in which he presents his earliest formulations of how to study the police; and c) the different ethnomethodological influences found in his monograph The Functions of the Police in Modern Society and various book chapters and articles. Bittner’s status in criminology and police studies, and his field-specific articulations of arguments, disguise the importance of his work for ethnomethodology.
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