Carlin2009a
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Carlin2009a |
Author(s) | Andrew P. Carlin |
Title | Edward Rose and linguistic ethnography: An ethno-inquiries approach to interviewing |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Interviews, Ethno-inquiries, Cultural trauma, Bomb, Security, Manchester |
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Year | 2009 |
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Journal | Qualitative Research |
Volume | 9 |
Number | 3 |
Pages | 331-354 |
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DOI | 10.1177/1468794109106604 |
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Abstract
This article discusses the `Ethno-inquiries', founded by Edward Rose, and the analytic affinities with Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks established in the formative development of Ethnomethodology. The article introduces the Ethno-inquiries approach to sociological interviews. Using a project that captured ordinary, oral accounts of the 1996 bombing of Manchester, England, this article shows how the epistemological and methodological attitude of the Ethno-inquiries towards talk — recognizing the linguistic constitution of the social world, avoiding methodological irony, letting informants rather than analysts organize topics — affords fine-grained analyses of ordinary actions within extraordinary events. This article discusses important aspects of interviewing including data gathering and the nature of `interview data', the selection of interviewees and getting the story. A series of vignettes demonstrates the enabling potential of this analytic attitude towards people's accounts.
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