Raymond2022b
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Raymond2022b |
| Author(s) | Geoffrey Raymond, Lillian Jungleib, Don Zimmerman, Nikki Jones |
| Title | Rules and Policeable Matters: Enforcing the Civil Sidewalk Ordinance for “Another First Time” |
| Editor(s) | Douglas W. Maynard, John Heritage |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Police, Rules |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| City | New York, NY |
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| Pages | 162–187 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190854409.003.0006 |
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| Book title | The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects |
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Abstract
Garfinkel’s re-specification of the relationship between rules, practical action, and social order stands among his most important and far-reaching contributions to the human sciences. Virtually no account of social life can lose sight of the central role played by rules, laws, norms, or other idealized standards of behavior (which are glossed as “rules”) that participants draw on in organizing and evaluating their own and others’ conduct. In addition to their centrality to social life via laws and institutions, rules and normative expectations are directly bound up with notions of morality, and so constitute a central dimension of social action and human relations. This chapter canvasses Garfinkel’s re-specification of rules, accountability, and social action, and uses the empirical case of police officers enforcing the Civil Sidewalk Ordinance (CSO) to illustrate how this intervention opens a window onto the endogenous methods participants use to organize their encounters with others. As the authors show, examining how this rule is enforced “for another first time” vastly expands the ways in which settings and activities can be studied and understood, how analysts can ground their claims in the conduct of the participants being studied, and thus how they can account for both recurrent features of social life and the distinctive moments through which that recurrence is produced.
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