Wilson1979
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Wilson1979 |
| Author(s) | Thomas Wilson, Don H. Zimmerman |
| Title | Ethnomethodology, Sociology and Theory |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Journal | Humboldt Journal of Social Relations |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 52–88 |
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Abstract
The article characterizes theory in ethnomethodology. However; the term "ethnomethodology" does not designate a unified point of view or subject matter, but rather identifies a loose conglomerate of approaches sometimes bearing little more than vague family resemblances to one another. Consequently, an undertaking such as this must necessarily reflect a particular conception of what ethnomethodology is about, and thus what one has to say will not apply to all of the varied points of view called ethnomethodology, much less to the even wider variety of opinions about ethnomethodology in the secondary literature. The term "theory" also covers a multitude of things. In its broadest sense, theory encompasses the basic rationale that defines and justifies interest in some domain of phenomena in a narrower sense; it consists of specific formulations concerning the phenomena themselves. The phenomena of interest to ethnomethodology are fundamental and crucial in the sense that adequate understanding of how society works cannot be had without considering the way members of society produce the accounts in terms of which they organize their actual daily activities and thereby produce the concrete evidences of that social organization which is the object of sociological inquiry.
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