RJAnderson2022
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | RJAnderson2022 |
| Author(s) | Robert J. Anderson |
| Title | Research activities and professional practices |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Ethnographic Studies |
| Volume | 19 |
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| Pages | 114-125 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.5281/zenodo.7637976 |
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Abstract
Context If I remember rightly (and these days that is anything but guaranteed), this piece was written in the dog days of late summer 1976. It was an exciting time to be coming new to Ethnomethodology and especially in Manchester. The Department was extremely lively with the Ethno contingent led by Wes (Sharrock) and John (Lee) of course. Jeff Coulter and Rod Watson were also on the staff as were sympathetic colleagues such as Peter Martin and Martyn Hammersley. Graduate students included Doug Benson, Graham Button, Ted Cuff, Dave Francis, Christian Heath and many others. Garfinkel either recently had been or was about to be a Simon Fellow, Sacks had visited a few years earlier and Gail Jefferson, George Psathas and Don Zimmerman were soon to arrive. Regular visitors were people like John Heritage and Paul Drew. That summer I had handed in my MA Thesis, changed jobs, moved house and was casting around for a PhD topic. In addition, June and July were swallowed up with the ‘A’ Level marking I did at that time. The effects of all these distractions show in the paper. Not only is it a very preliminary draft (more notes really), the original is very rough. I have smoothed a few of the clumsiest sentences and removed many repetitious terms and phrases but, given Alex’s reasons for wanting to republish it, I have left the analysis in its original clunky state. One thing did strike me though. The paper represents, I think, my first dip into the possibilities thrown up by adopting Ethnomethodology’s investigative stance to Professional Sociology’s working practices—a topic which has haunted me on and off ever since!
Notes
Originally published as: Anderson, Robert. 1977. ‘Research Activities and Professional Practices’. Analytic Sociology 1 (1): F10–G03.
