Tolmie2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Tolmie2025 |
| Author(s) | Peter Tolmie, Mark Rouncefield |
| Title | Ordinary Activities |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 305–312 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-30 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 26 |
Abstract
This chapter documents how ordinary life is constituted around a variety of everyday rights and obligations and the ways in which these rights and obligations form a core part of the mundane reasoning exercised by members across a range of different settings. The particular focus here is on what might be described as the “emotional” tone or tenor of any setting – whether that setting is “intimate” or “business” – and how that tone is oriented to, achieved and maintained. The fieldwork data we draw upon comes from studies of activities undertaken in home and work settings: a mother reading a bedtime story to her daughter; and a PA arranging appointments for people to see her boss. The emphasis throughout is not on “theorising” such work as exemplars or indicators of some more general, universal theoretical trend, but on seeking to understand such activity “from within”.
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