Watson1998a
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| Key | Watson1998a |
| Author(s) | Rodney Watson |
| Title | Ethnomethodology, consciousness and self |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Consciousness Studies |
| Volume | 5 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 202–223 |
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Abstract
In this paper I shall outline the approach to consciousness adopted by ethnomethodology and its ‘associate’ conversation(al) analysis. I shall attempt to do this by taking a minimalist stance, namely a basic formulation of the elements of these approaches, trying to strip away the ornate superstructures which have been erected upon that basis. I shall proceed in two ways. First, I shall seek to define ethnomethodology and conversation analysis by contrasting them to varying degrees with a variety of other approaches: symbolic interactionism and, derivatively, the work of Goffman, the -social psychology of Rom Harre and his associates and with Norbert Wiley. Secondly, I shall give some examples of the use of the notion of ‘self’held by ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts that take a definitive turn towards a non-ironic, non-mentalist, non-essentialist and non-cognitivist approach to knowledge, consciousness and self.
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