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Atkinson1988
BibType ARTICLE
Key Atkinson1988
Author(s) Paul Atkinson
Title Ethnomethodology: A Critical Review
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis
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Year 1988
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Journal Annual Review of Sociology
Volume 14
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Pages 441-65
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Abstract

The paper reviews recent publications in ethnomethodology (EM) from a sympathetic but critical perspective. It is agreed that EM has made major contributions to sociological theory and to the empirical investigation of everyday life. A number of major reservations are made, however. The author suggests that some contemporary versions of EM-onversation analysis in particular-have an unduly restricted perspective. They give rise to a sociolo­ gy which is behaviorist and empiricist, and which does not reflect the interpretative origins that inspired EM. Far from being a coherent and homogenous movement, the author suggests, EM is marked by inconsistency.

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